Question

A choral conductor has 1648 singers in her choir, some of them are professional singers. The conductor wants to estimate what percentage of singers are professional, but can't ask all 1648, so she instead asks 688 singers in front and finds 15 who are professionals.

(a) Identify the population

A. percentage of entire singers who are professional
B. entire singers
C. 15/1648
D. None of the above.

Answer 1

B. entire singers

Explanation:

A population consists of all subjects that are being studied.

The total number of singers the choral conductor choral conductor has in her choir is 1648.

The 1648 singers refers to the entire subject being studied

Therefore the population is the entire singers.

The correct answer is B.