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The headteacher of a school wants to investigate opinions of pupils about meals sold in the canteen. She asks the first 20 people in the dinner queue their opinions.

Explain why this is not a satisfactory method of selecting a sample of pupils.
Describe how the headteacher could select a random sample of 20 students.

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The people who are in the front of the queue are the people most likely to like the food
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That is not a satisfactory sample because the results could be biased or viewed in a different way because maybe all 20 student the teacher chose may have a certain opinion. A good way to select random students is to maybe get some papers with all the student names and mix them all up in a bowl and then pick some random papers.


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