Question

katie and cole live in springfield, RI, and are interested in the average number of skateboarders who use their town’s smooth skate park in one week. katie recorded the number of skateboarders who used the park in june. cole recorded the number of skateboarders who used the park in january. which sampling method is more representative of the population?
a. katie's sample
b. cole's sample

Answer 1

Using sampling concepts, and considering that skateboarding is a summer sport, the correct option is given by:

a. katie's sample

What is sampling?

It is when a group is taken from a population, and the data taken from the group can be taken to estimate the data for the entire population. A sample has to be representative of the population.

In this question, we have to consider that skateboarding is a summer sport, hence June's sample is more representative than January's, which means that option a is correct.

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