Question

Alan is conducting a survey to find out the type of art preferred by students at the town’s high school. Identify the population of his survey and describe a possible sample of the population.

Answer 1

Sample Response-bThe population of Alan's survey is all the students at the town's high school. The sample must be representative of the population. A possible sample would be an equal number of freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Population: The entire number of students present in town’s high school.

Sample: Identical number of students across various categories of freshers, senior students and juniors.

Explanation:

Population is the large set of the people who are present during the experiment. Sample is a smaller subset from the population who become a part of the experiment. In this question, samples are the students who are either new joiners to the college, the senior students or the juniors. It will help Alan to come to a possible conclusion using the survey