Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0321911210
ISBN 13: 978-0-32191-121-6

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Statistics - Section 1.1 An Overview of Statistics - Exercises - Page 7: 23

Answer

The population is the ages of the adults in the United States who own cell phones. The sample is the ages of the adults in the United States who own Samsung cell phones.

Work Step by Step

The population represents all the possible outcomes which is all the ages of the adults in the United States who own a cellphone. A sample is a subset of a population which would be those who own a Samsung cell phone in the United States. In the Venn Diagram, the sample can be identified as the circle inside the rectangle. The rectangle represents the whole and the circle is the subset.
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