Question

As part of a statistics project, a teacher brings a bag of marbles containing 500 white marbles and 400 red marbles. She tells the students the bag contains 900 total marbles, and asks her students to determine how many red marbles are in the bag without counting them. A student randomly draws 100 marbles from the bag. Of the 100 marbles, 45 are red. The data collection method can best be described as

Answer 1

Survey

Explanation:

During data collection for a particular study, reaching all target Population might seem illogical or impossible. Therefore, a subset of the population of interest is chosen and the outcome used to infer about the population. This procedure could be referred to a a SURVEY. In the scenario samples drawn from the population of interest is used to make inference on population. During a survey, selected data ponuts or subjects must be drawn at random in other to ensure that it is representative of the larger population data.