Since the Entire Population Is Too Large to Work With

question 12

Multiple Choice

Since the entire population is too large to work with, a sample is often used to characterize the population. This sample should:

• A) be at most 5% of the population size to minimize the computational efforts.
• B) be randomly selected so that it represents the entire population.
• C) include individuals that are selected to fully represent the extreme values in the distribution.
• D) be small enough to mitigate against chance events skewing the distribution of the sample.

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