Question

Sharon wants to estimate the percentage of parents that use cloth diapers. She asks a randomly selected group of 75 parents whether or not they use cloth diapers. What is the population?

Answer 1

Answer: Parents.

Explanation:

• In statistics , a population is a large group of similar things or members by researcher's perspective from that he/ she draw a finite subset also known as sample to follow his / her research.

Here, Sharon wants to estimate the percentage of parents that use cloth diapers.

i.e.Researcher = Sharon

Since Sharon will reach parents about her objective of whether they use cloth diapers.

So , Population = Parents

If She asks a randomly selected group of 75 parents whether or not they use cloth diapers , then Sample size is 75 .

Therefore, the population is : "Parents."