Jules wants to know which professional baseball player is most popular among the 300 students at his school. Determine which is the most reasonable and representative sample. Explain.

a) collect data from a census of every student at his school.
b) collect data from a sample of every student at his math class.
c) collect data from a sample of every 20th student who arrives at school one day.
d) collect data from a sample of every student on a school sports team.

Question

Jules wants to know which professional baseball player is most popular among the 300 students at his school. Determine which is the most reasonable and representative sample. Explain.

a) collect data from a census of every student at his school. 
b) collect data from a sample of every student at his math class.
c) collect data from a sample of every 20th student who arrives at school one day. 
d) collect data from a sample of every student on a school sports team.

calculusxy · Answer

@SithsAndGiggles

anonymous · Answer

D? Because he would be spending most of his time with sports team since he plays baseball.

anonymous · Answer

C, because you dont want to have to do ALL the students, and selecting from a sports team or his math class would be too small of an experiment to figure out for the entire school. :)

anonymous · Answer

@calculusxy are you still here?

calculusxy · Answer

Yes

anonymous · Answer

C is your answer.

calculusxy · Answer

My friend had asked about the answer choice A. She chose that and the way that she explained it, made me almos the convinced about it.

anonymous · Answer

a would take too long. it says select the most reasonable choice, and i just dont think that's it.