Question

A bookstore wants to determine how many books the people in the surrounding neighborhood read per month on average. They survey each customer who enters their store for one week. Identify any bias in this method. If appropriate, suggest a method more likely to produce a random sample.

Answer 1

The outcome will be more likely that the random sample will be give to random people in the store.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The bias is that they are only surveying the people who enter their book store. These people will obviously like books. If they want to be objective, they could ask people off the streets or on a busy sidewalk.