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To attract business, a clothing store mails discount coupons to residents of a town. To estimate the proportion of the store’s shoppers who are using the coupons, the store manager selects a random sample of 100 customers who visit the store on a weekend. The manager finds that 38 of them are using the coupons mailed to their homes. Which of the following describes the sample in this setting?

A) all residents of the town
B) the 38 shoppers who used coupons
C) the 100 randomly selected shoppers
D) all shoppers in the store on the weekend

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Answer:

C) the 100 randomly selected shoppers

Step-by-step explanation:

Using sampling concepts, it is found that the sample in this setting is described by:

C) the 100 randomly selected shoppers.

What is sampling?

It is a common statistics practice, when we want to study something from a population, we find a sample of this population, which is a group containing elements of a population. A sample has to be representative of the population, that is, it has to involve all segments of the population.

In this problem, the group sampled is the 100 customers who visit the store on a weekend, hence option C is correct.

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