The faculty at a large university wanted to know what proportion of the students

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The faculty at a large university wanted to know what proportion of the students at the university thought foreign language classes should be required. The statistics department offered to cooperate in conducting a survey, and a simple sample of 500 students was selected from all teh students enrolled in statistics classes. A survey form was sent by emaol to those students.

Which state is true about this study?

a. The sample is not random because students who like math do not necessarily like foregin language.

b. since the sample is random, it is representative of the population of interest.

c. the sample is baised because students who like math are better at foregin languages.

d. even though the sample is random, it is not representative of teh population of interest.

Explanation / Answer

d.even though the sample is random, it is not representative of the population of interest reason is it include only candidates from statistics department and not from whole college.

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