Students are voting on the color of T-shirts to wear on their field trip. There are 160 students–65 boys and 95 girls–going on the field trip. A random sample of students is chosen. Surveying the random sample produced a representative sample of the population. Which was most likely true of the representative sample?

A representative sample should have roughly the same proportions of boys and girls as the full group. Of the 160 students, 95 are girls and 65 are boys, so girls make up the larger share. The sample most likely contained more girls than boys, rather than equal numbers or every student.

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