Question

Olivia wants to know the proportion of students at her school who use a

certain social media app. She interviews a random sample of students at

her school. She finds that 30% of the students in the sample use the app.

What conclusion can she draw from the sample?

А

It is likely that about 30% of the students at her school use the app.

B Exactly 30% of the students at her school use the app.

Every random sample would find that 30% of the students use

the app

It is likely that 30% of the students at her school were selected for

the sample.

Answer 1

A

Explanation:

Random sampling is a sampling method where each sample has an equal chance of being chosen. The random sample chosen is meant to be an unbiased representation of the population.

If 30% of the sample uses the app, it means that 30% of the population are likely to use the app