Answer to Question #301711 in Statistics and Probability for Pein

Question

Identify possible samples for the following populations:

1. Students enrolled in schools along university belt

2. Athletes participating in the 2005 summer Olympics

3. Electric consumption of families in the national capital region

4. Production output of a pharmaceutical company

5. Marine life in the Philippines

Answer 1

A sample is a smaller subset of the entire population, ideally one that is fairly representative of the whole population.

possible samples

1. A sample of $5000$ students selected randomly from all the universities in the university belt

2. A sample of $500$ athletes selected randomly from all countries participating in the Olympics.

3. The electricity consumption of $10000$ random homes from different parts of the national capital region with different standards of living.

4. A sample of the production output of the pharmaceutical company at randomly selected days

5. A sample of different types of marine lives obtained from different parts of the country.