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QuizMultiple Choice

Strength of Correlation — Unit test

Question 1 • High School Math 2 A

Alejandro wants to determine the average shoe size of all of the male students in his school. Which sample is likely to yield the most biased results?

Answer
A
every tenth boy on the school’s phone list
B
every member of the boys’ basketball team
C
every boy in a randomly selected ninth-, tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-grade gym class
D
every fifth boy who walks through the front doors of the school in the morning

Explanation

The boys’ basketball team is a specialized group, and its members may tend to have larger shoe sizes than male students overall. That makes the sample unrepresentative and likely to produce the most biased estimate. A random gym class or students selected from the phone list or school entrance is more likely to include a broader mix of students.

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