2. (10.03) Each month the U.S. Census Bureau\'s American Community Survey mails

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2. (10.03) Each month the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey mails survey forms to 250,000 households asking questions about demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics such as mortgage and utility costs. Telephone calls are made to households that don't return the form. In one month, responses were obtained from 240,000 of the households contacted eBook The sample is the 250,000 households initially contacted the 240,000 households that responded the 10,000 households that did not respond all U.S. households.

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We are given, Each month the U.S. census Bureau's American Community Surveys mails forms to 250000 households. That means they first chose 250000 households for survey from whole population. So, 250000 is the subset of total america's households. And we know subset of population is the sample. Hence,

The sample is the 250000 househlds initially contacted.

So,first option is correct.

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