Question

A recent survey by the alumni of a major university indicated that the average salary of 10,000 of its 300,000 graduates was $125,000. What is the Population?

Answer 1

Answer:

The population is the total number of the universities  graduates  i.e $N = 300,000$

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that

  The number of students that are consider is  n = 10,000

   The total number of graduates is  $N = 300,000$

  The mean is $\= x = \ 125 , 000$

Here the population is The total number of graduates with value  $N = 300,000$, this is because a population is the pool from with a sample is drawn and in this case the pool is $N = 300,000$ while the sample with is drawn is  n = 10,000