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A researcher examines the records of all registered voters in one city and finds that 43% are registered democrats. Is the evaluated group a population or a sample?

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Answer: Population

Step-by-step explanation: Population is refers to the whole or entire members or of a given set. This is different from a sample which is used to refer to members of a subset (a subset is a certain portion or fraction of an entire set). In the scenario above, since the evaluation was based on the entire number of registered voters in the country, this means we are referring to a population. The inference about the percentage of democratic voters was drawn from a pool of all the entire number of registered voters available in the country and not from a certain subset or portion of registered voters. Hence, the evaluated group is a population.

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