A Flashlight Manufacturer Sets Aside a Production Line for the Assembly

question 59

Multiple Choice

A flashlight manufacturer sets aside a production line for the assembly of 2000 flashlights to fill a special order. Ninety of these flashlights are selected at random from the production line to be tested, and 15 are found to be defective. The population is:

• A) the 15 defective flashlights.
• B) the 90 flashlights tested.
• C) the 2000 flashlights produced for this order.
• D) all flashlights produced by the manufacturer.

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