Question

David is going to order pizza for all 300 seventh grade students at Wood Middle School. He wants to know how many seventh graders prefer pepperoni, cheese, or sausage pizza. David decides to survey 100 seventh grade students to find out what they prefer. Of the students surveyed, 53 prefer pepperoni, 17 prefer cheese, and 30 prefer sausage. Identify the population in the situation above. A. all seventh grade students at Wood Middle School B. all seventh grade students that David did not survey C. all sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at Wood Middle School D. all seventh grade students that David surv

Answer 1

A. All seventh grade students at Wood Middle School

Explanation:

We want to find which is the population.

Now, A population is simply the entire set or group that you intend to find out information and draw up a conclusion while sample is the specific set or group derived from that population from which we collect data.

Thus implies that the population size is always more than the sample size.

In this question, from the definition we have given, we can easily see that the population is the 300 seventh grade students at Wood Middle School while the sample is is the 100 seventh grade students that were surveyed.