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: 34

Answer

The population is all the third- to twelfth-grade students. The sample is the 2002 third- to twelfth-grade students that were surveyed.

Work Step by Step

The question of interest is how much time third- to twelfth-grade students devoted per day to using entertainment media. Therefore, the population is the total amount of third- to twelfth-grade students. The sample, which is a subset of the population, is the 2002 third- to twelfth-grade students that were surveyed for the study.
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