Question

Jose and Enriquetta are doing an opinion survey of undergraduate students regarding immigration policy in the United States. There are 7,000 undergraduate students at their university but they plan to only survey 1,000 of them. In view of this , the 7,000 students would be considered as the ________ and the 1,000 students surveyed would be the ________.

Answer 1

Answer: Population , Sample

Step-by-step explanation:

In statistics, Population can be defined as the overall pool from which a statistical sample is drawn. A population may refer to an entire group of people, objects, events, hotel visits, measurements etc. While a sample is defined as a small part of a population used for statistical analysis, which is intended to show what the whole population is like.

In the case above,the population is the 7000 students in the school while the sample is the 1000 students surveyed.