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A political scientist surveys 25 of the current 86 representatives in a state's legislative.What is the size of the sample?What is the size of the population?

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The sample size is the number of surveyed subjects and the population size is the total number of subjects. So for this problem the size of the sample is 25 and the size of the population is 86.

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