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Chapter 1: Q.50 (page 53)

What is the population she is interested in?

a. all Lake Tahoe Community College students

b. all Lake Tahoe Community College English students

c. all Lake Tahoe Community College students in her classes

d. all Lake Tahoe Community College math students

Short Answer

Expert verified
All math students at Lake Tahoe Community College make up the right population.
As a result, option D is the correct answer.

Step by step solution

01

Introduction

In order to pick the right population, we must also guarantee that the right samples are used.
We need to choose all math students as the population because we're interested in their absence.
02

Explanation

Thepopulationistheoverallimagefromwhichasamplewillbetaken.
So, in order to obtain appropriate samples, we must guarantee that we select the appropriate population.
Teachers are interested in math student absences, thus we should pick all math students at Lake Tahoe Community College to acquire an estimate of math student absences.

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