Answer to Question #335719 in Statistics and Probability for Junior

Question

Random samples with size 5 are drawn from the population containing the values 26, 32, 41, 50, 58, and 63. Determine the number of possible samples with size 5. 

Answer 1

We have population values 26, 32, 41, 50, 58, and 63 population size N=6 and sample size n=5.

The number of possible samples which can be drawn without replacement is

$^{N}C_n=^{6}C_5=6.$