As part of a statistics project, a teacher brings a bag of marbles containing 800 white marbles and 300 red marbles. She tells the students the bag contains 1100 total marbles, and seff-ter students to determine how many red marbles are in the bag without counting them.
A student randomly draws 150 marbles from the bag. Of the 150 marbles, 43 are red.
The data collection method can best be described as
Survey or Sample
Census
Controlled study
Clinical study
The target population consists of
The 300 red marbles in the bag
The 43 red marbles drawn by the student
The 1100 marbles in the bag
The 150 marbles drawn by the student
None of the above
The sample consists of
The 1100 marbles in the bag
The 43 red marbles drawn by the student
The 300 red marbles in the bag
The 150 marbles drawn by the student
None of the above
Based on the sample, the student would estimate that
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marbles in the bag were red.