Executives from Six Flags, a well-known amusement park chain, had interest in constructing a Six Flags theme park in a location
near Ames city limits. Experts believed that approximately 15% of the surrounding population would be interested in becoming season ticket holders. A random sample of 500 residents of Story County was collected (of the approximately 80,000 residents of Story County). Of the 500 people sampled, 124 said that they would be interested in purchasing season tickets to a Six Flags in Ames. Select the best description of the sample.
SAMPLE can be defined as the process in which some group of people are randomly selected from a large population for the sole aim of carrying out statistical analysis that will represent the whole population at large instead of carryingout the SAMPLE on each person.
Therefore based on the information given the best description of the SAMPLE will be the 500 RESIDENT OF STORY COUNTY reason been that we were told that a random SAMPLE of the 500 residents of Story County were collected which in turn represent 80,000 of the residents of Story County at large.
