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A student council president wants to learn about the preferred theme for the upcoming spring dance. Select all the samples that are representative of the population.

A student council president wants to learn about the preferred theme for the upcoming-example-1
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The idea of being representative of the population is actually reflecting the characteristics (features) we want to study of the whole population.

In this case, the samples that better represent the whole population are B and D. Why? Because they give us the possibility of taking a student of every grade. The other options, excluding the "bus option" and the first option, fail doing that. Finally, these options (bus option and lunch option) are related to the council president.

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