SOLUTION: Suppose you are researching the eating habits of people your age. What sampling method could you use to find the percent of students in your grade who eat five servings of fruit an

Question 1013333: Suppose you are researching the eating habits of people your age. What sampling method could you use to find the percent of students in your grade who eat five servings of fruit and vegs. each day. What is an example of a survey question the does not have bias?
Please help! I cannot think of any examples
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What do you eat every day? If you keep the question open ended, and get everything they eat, they don't know what you are looking for. You could ask how many servings of fruit and vegetables they eat, but that starts showing bias towards those items.

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