A cell phone company wants to determine the average amount of data that their smart phone customers use each month. Which group would best represent a sample of the population?

The population of interest is the company’s smartphone customers, so the sample should be drawn from that whole group. A thousand customers with a current smartphone data plan best matches the population. The other groups are selected by plan price, signup date, or support calls, which could bias the estimate of average monthly data use.

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