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Ryan collected data from a random sample of 700 students in his university asking whether or not they exercise more than 30 minutes per day. Based on the results, he reports that 36% of the students in the nation exercise more than 30 minutes per day. Why is this statistic misleading?

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He only asked students in his university and he stated that it represented the whole nation (his university does not represent the whole country.)

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