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QUESTION ONE!Arielle plans to purchase hanging baskets for her front porch. There are three businesses in her area that sell hanging baskets and she plans to purchase the baskets from one of these business.Which answer best describes the sample and population? Sample: all available hanging baskets at the three businesses in town that sell themPopulation: all available hanging baskets at one of the businesses in town that sells themSample: all available hanging baskets at one of the businesses in town that sells themPopulation: all available hanging baskets at the three businesses in town that sell themSample: all available hanging baskets at the three businesses in town that sell themPopulation: all available hanging baskets at businesses in her state that sell themSample: all available hanging baskets at one of the businesses in town that sells themPopulation: all available hanging baskets at businesses in her state that sell themQuestion 2An amusement park's owners are considering extending the weeks of the year that it is opened. The owners would like to survey 100 randomly selected families to see whether an extended season would be of interest to those that may visit the amusement park.What is the best way to randomly choose these 100 families? Have the owners of the amusement park ask the first 100 people they see.Choose a neighborhood near the amusement park and ask 100 families in this neighborhood.Ask the first 100 families that enter the amusement park on a busy weekend day.Allow a random number generator to come up with 100 families within a 50 radius of the amusement park.

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Arielle plans to purchase hanging baskets for her front porch. There are three businesses in her area that sell hanging baskets and she plans to purchase the baskets from one of these business.

To find: Which answer best describes the sample and population?

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that,

Arielle plans to purchase hanging baskets for her front porch. There are three businesses in her area that sell hanging baskets and she plans to purchase the baskets from one of these business.

That implies,

Sample: all available hanging baskets at one of the businesses in town that sells them.

And,

Population: all available hanging baskets at the three businesses in town that sell them.

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