Question

A teacher needs to find out how many seventh-grade students will be going on a field trip. Which best describes the population that the teacher should survey?
A) the parents of all the students in the school
B) the parents of the seventh-grade students
C) each teacher in the school
D) each student in the school

Answer 1

Answer:

In statistics , the population is the set of all possible observations as per the researcher's objective .

For example if a researcher wants to find the average height of teenager of age group between 13 year and 15 years in Seattle, he will need the data of the population of height of teenager of age group between 13 year and 15 years in Seattle.

Here , A teacher needs to find out how many seventh graders will be going on a field trip.

Clearly as per her objective she need the data of all seventh graders .

So , the best describes the population that the teacher should survey would be : All seventh graders.

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