Concept explainers
To identify: the sample for analysis is biased or unbiased and type of sampling.
Answer to Problem 4GP
The sample of 52 students is biased and convenience sample and cannot be used to predict caramel in 600 boxes.
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
- Purpose of sampling is to determine type of popcorn sale.
- 52 students at lunch selected randomly.
The sampling data is considering only students that is a specific category. There might be adults in theaters and there choices of popcorn is not considered. This is the case of convenience sample.
Since the sample is convenience sample.sample , the above sample is baised sample and cannot be used to predict caramel in 600 boxes.
Chapter 10 Solutions
Glencoe Math Accelerated, Student Edition
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