SOLUTION: As part of a statistics project, a teacher brings a bag of marbles containing 600 white marbles and 300 red marbles. She asks her students to determine how many red marbles are in
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Question 1154133: As part of a statistics project, a teacher brings a bag of marbles containing 600 white marbles and 300 red marbles. She asks her students to determine how many red marbles are in the bag without counting them.
A student randomly draws 100 marbles from the bag. Of the 100 marbles, 31 are red.
The target population consists of
A. None of the above
B. The 900 marbles in the bag
C. The 300 red marbles in the bag
D. The 100 marbles drawn by the student
E. The 31 red marbles drawn by the student
The sample consists of
A. The 100 marbles drawn by the student
B. The 31 red marbles drawn by the student
C. The 300 red marbles in the bag
D. None of the above
E. The 900 marbles in the bag
Based on the sample, the student would estimate that _______ marbles in the bag were red.
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