Question

Student archaeologists An archaeological dig turns up large numbers of pottery shards,

broken stone tools, and other artifacts. Students working on the project classify each

artifact and assign a number to it. The counts in different categories are important for

understanding the site, so the project director chooses $2\%$of the artifacts at random and

checks the students’ work. Identify the population and the sample.

Short answer

Population: Pottery shards discovered during the dig.

Sample:Two percent of ceramic shards

Step-by-step solution

Given information

We have to find the population and the sample

Explanation

A sample survey picks a group of people from a larger group of people about whom we wish to learn more.

Pottery shards discovered during the dig.

Two percent of ceramic shards are verified as a sample.