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Determine if the situation below are biased or unbiased and explain why.At a convention, each attendee is given a number. A number is randomly selected in a drawing, and the person with that number wins a laptop.

Determine if the situation below are biased or unbiased and explain why.At a convention-example-1

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Given that:

- Each attendee is given a number at a convention.

- A number is randomly selected.

- The person with that number wins a laptop.

You need to remember that, by definition:

- When a part or parts of a population have more chances of being selected over others, then the sample is biased.

- When each part of a population has the same chance of being selected, then the sample is unbiased.

In this case, you know that each attendee at the convention receives a number. Therefore, each attendee has the same chance of being selected and winning the laptop. Then, you can determine that it is an unbiased sample.

Hence, the answer is: Unbiased.

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