You and your classmates decide to take a census of how many mosquitoes are in the school’s parking lot. Why is this a poor topic for a census?

Question

anonymous · Answer

A)
	There are too many mosquitoes to count accurately. 	
Eliminate
	

B)
	Mosquitoes are short lived and may not survive the census. 	
	

C)
	You can’t tell if the mosquito that’s in the parking lot today was there yesterday or will be there tomorrow. 	
	

D)
	It’s too difficult to find all the mosquitoes, and you can’t tell if you are counting individual mosquitoes twice or more.

anonymous · Answer

All of these answers are probable, but It’s too difficult to find all the mosquitoes, and you can’t tell if you are counting individual mosquitoes twice or more. is probably the correct choice.