Using Proportions
Ms. Garrett wishes to randomly select 10 students for a lunch meeting to discuss ways to improve school spirit. There are 1500 students in the school.
What is the population for this problem?
Suppose you wanted to determine the number of students who have a cell phone across the entire seventh grade.
Suggest and justify a method of surveying students in the seventh grade to obtain a representative sample.
When data are gathered from a sample, the characteristic used to describe the sample is called a
When data are gathered from a population, the characteristic used to describe the population is called a