Question

A landscaper wants to find the answer to the question “How much time do people in Raleigh, North Carolina, spend doing yard work in one week?” He asks the owners of all 120 houses in a Raleigh neighborhood. Which best describes the accuracy of the results of the survey?

Answer 1

Answer: It is "The survey results will be inaccurate because lawns in one neighborhood do not represent all types of lawns in a large city".

Answer 2

The result will be inaccurate.

Explanation:

A landscaper wants to find the answer to the question “How much time do people in Raleigh, North Carolina, spend doing yard work in one week?”

He asks the owners of all 120 houses in a Raleigh neighborhood.

The results of such a survey can never be accurate.

Firstly, the sample is not random as the person selected all the 120 houses in the neighborhood.

Secondly, few samples do not represent a large population. The city must have many lawns and the lawns of a single area does not denote the lawns of the entire city.

So, the results will be inaccurate.