Question

Charles wants to find out if the students in foreign language classes spend more time in class speaking in English or in the for

language they are studying. Charles first gets class lists of all students taking foreign language classes. He then chooses 10
students from each different language class to survey. Which best explains why the sample he chose may not be a
representative sample?
The sample size is not large enough to renresent the nonulation

Answer 1

C

Explanation:

The way the sample was chosen may overrepresent or underrepresent students taking certain language classes.

Answer 2

The way the sample was chosen may overrepresent or underrepresent students taking certain language classes.

Explanation:

Answer options:

The sample size is not large enough to represent the population.

• No. Sample size is quite small per language.

The sample was not chosen at random.

• No. There is no evidence if samples are not random.

The way the sample was chosen may overrepresent or underrepresent students taking certain language classes.

• Yes. Some of the classes my have large, some may have small population. Therefore taking 10 samples from each language is not right proportion and proper representation.

The way the sample was chosen does not sample students from each different language class.

• No. Each language class is considered.