Television station XYZ wants to know the proportion of TV owners in Virginia who watch the station's new program at least once a week. The station asks a group of 1000 TV owners in Virginia if they watch the program at least once a week. 250 of the TV owners surveyed indicated they did watch the program at least once a week. Is the group of 1000 TV owners in Virginia the population or a sample?

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Brooke Ho

24 October, 22:42

Television station XYZ wants to know the proportion of TV owners in Virginia who watch the station's new program at least once a week. The station asks a group of 1000 TV owners in Virginia if they watch the program at least once a week. 250 of the TV owners surveyed indicated they did watch the program at least once a week. Is the group of 1000 TV owners in Virginia the population or a sample?

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Brandon Benton · Answer 1

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Given that television station XYZ wants to know the proportion of TV owners in Virginia who watch the station's new program at least once a week. The station asks a group of 1000 TV owners in Virginia if they watch the program at least once a week. 250 of the TV owners surveyed indicated they did watch the program at least once a week.

Here the population is the set of all TV owners in Virginia

The group of 1000 TV owners asked about their opinion is the sample

Answer is it is a sample.

Note: The main difference between a population and a sample is that the population includes all the elements of the set while sample includes only a subset of the whole set.