Question

A politician who is running for the office of mayor of a city with 25,000 registered voters commissions a survey. In the survey, 48% of the 200 registered voters interviewed say they plan to vote for her. a. What is the population of interest?

Answer 1

Answer:

The 25,000 registered voters

Step-by-step explanation:

Population includes the entirety of the set of data, it consists of all the elements of a data set. For example all the students in a school, all the citizens of a country etc.

While the sample is the elements of the population from which observations are drawn from.

Therefore, for the case above, the population is the entirety of the registered voters in the city, that is all the 25,000 registered voters.