Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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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: 30

Answer

The population is the total amount of students at a college. The sample is the 496 students surveyed at a college.

Work Step by Step

The question of interest is what percentage of college students planned on traveling out of the country during spring break. So the population is all the students at a college and the sample is the 496 students at the college used for the survey. The sample is the subset of the population.
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