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A political scientist surveys 70 of the current 263 representatives in a state's congress. Of them, 28 said they were supporting the bill, 30 said they were not supporting the bill, and 12 were undecided.What is the population size? representativesWhat is the sample size? representatives

A political scientist surveys 70 of the current 263 representatives in a state's congress-example-1
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SOLUTION:

Step 1:

In this question, we are given the following:

Step 2:

From the question,

A population is an entire group that you want to draw conclusions about.

A sample is a specific group that you will collect data from.

The size of the sample is always less than the total size of the population.

a) We can see that the population size = 263 representatives

b) We can also see that the sample size = 70 representatives

A political scientist surveys 70 of the current 263 representatives in a state's congress-example-1
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