Question

Students as customers A high school’s student newspaper plans to survey local

businesses about the importance of students as customers. From an alphabetical list of all

local businesses, 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: $1000$envelopes packed in an hour's time.

Sample: $40$envelopes were chosen as a sample.

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$1000$ envelopes packed in an hour's time.$40$ envelopes were chosen as a sample.