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Question 13 • Algebra I

Miranda is conducting a poll to determine how many students would attend a students-only school dance if one was held. Which sample is most likely to yield a representative sample for the poll?

Answer
A
every tenth person walking down Main Street in town at different times of the day
B
every student from all of Miranda’s classes
C
twenty names from each grade pulled blindly from a container filled with the names of the entire student body written on slips of paper
D
all of the students who write into the school newspaper

Explanation

A representative poll should give students throughout the school a fair chance of being selected. Pulling twenty names from each grade from a container holding the entire student body's names randomly selects students across grades. The other samples are limited or self-selected: town pedestrians may not be students, Miranda's classes may not reflect the whole school, and newspaper writers choose themselves to respond.

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