Bill Wants to Interview a Sample of Elderly Adults for a Project

question 44

Multiple Choice

Bill wants to interview a sample of elderly adults for a project in his college human development course.He decides to go to a local nursing home for his interviews because he assumes that most of the elderly adults in his community live in an arrangement like that.Given statistics on living arrangements for the elderly,we know that Bill's sample is representative of:

• A) most elderly adults,because most do live in nursing homes.
• B) about half of elderly adults,because half live in nursing homes.
• C) only about one-third of elderly adults,because one-third live in nursing homes.
• D) a fraction of elderly adults,because only a small percentage live in nursing homes.

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