To Discover Whether Residents of a City Are in Favor

question 74

Multiple Choice

To discover whether residents of a city are in favor of building a new sports stadium, the team's owner randomly selected and interviewed 500 of the city's 500,000 residents. In this instance, the 500 people that the owner interviewed would be ​

• A)a biased sample.
• B)a population. ​
• C)the dependent variable. ​
• D)a representative sample. ​

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