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A political research center obtains a list of phone numbers for all registered voters in texas and uses a random number generator to select 1,000 of the phone numbers to call. they ask each voter which gubernatorial candidate they plan to vote for in the upcoming election. what is the population of interest that the research center wants to generalize to?

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1000 x avg. pop. size / gubernational candidate mass ^2 = 69.375% interest


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