Question

One bead for every member of the school orchestra is placed in a bag. All but 2 of the beads are white. Each member draws a bead from the bag, and the members who pick the non-white beads will represent the orchestra. It is predicted that two different instrument players will choose the white beads.

Answer 1

We are to say whether the conclusion is valid.

Answer:

Statement is valid.

Explanation:

We are told that One bead is placed in a bag for every member of the school orchestra.

Also that all the beads except for 2 are white. Now, each member takes a bead from the bag and those who lick the non-white will represent the orchestra.

This tells us that this is an unbiased sample because it doesn't give anyone a better chance of picking non-white as every member of the school orchestra has an equal chance since it is randomly selected.

Thus, we can conclude that the statement that two different instrument players will choose the white beads is valid because we are dealing with an unbiased and simple random sampling