Question

Students as customers A high school student the newspaper plans to survey local businesses about the importance of students as customers. From telephone book listings, the newspaper staff chooses $150$ businesses

at random. Of these, $73$ return the questionnaire mailed by the staff. Identify the population and the sample.

Short answer

Population is local businesses, $73$ businesses.

Step-by-step solution

Given information

$150$ businesses were picked at random for a school's student newspaper survey about the value of students as clients. About $73$ of them responded to the staff's inquiry. We must first determine the population and sample size.

Concept

A simple random sample (SRS) of size n is made up of $n$ people chosen from the population with an equal chance of being the sample that is actually chosen.

Explanation

The poll is about local companies as well as the importance of students as clients, and it has received responses from $73$ firms. The population refers to the entire group of people for whom data is required. As a result, the population is made almost entirely of local enterprises. A sample is a small portion of the population from whom data is gathered. As a result, the sample consists of the $73$ businesses that responded to the questionnaire.