To discover whether residents of a city are in favor of building a new sports stadium, the team's owner randomly selected and interviewed 500 of the city's 500,000 residents. In this instance, the 500 people that the owner interviewed would be

A) a biased sample.
B) a population.
C) the dependent variable.
D) a representative sample.

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Tu Nhi Vo Huynh · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : D, Explanation :  The 500 people randomly selected by the team owner are an example of a representative sample, meaning that they are a subset of the larger population (in this case, the city's residents) that accurately reflects the characteristics and opinions of the population. This type of sampling helps to ensure that the results of the study are more likely to be generalizable to the population as a whole. The sample is not biased because the owner used a random selection method to choose the participants. The dependent variable is the outcome being measured in the study (in this case, whether the residents are in favor of building the new sports stadium), and it cannot be the sample itself.

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