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Say you have a population of 1 million, in which 900,000 of the members are female and 100,000 are male. Overall you are interested in knowing how many times per year, on average, your population chooses to go fishing. Since you cannot survey all 1 million members, explain how to find a good representative sample of size 100 that will help answer this question about fishing.
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In statistics the sample size of a population is of great importance to ensure the statistical outcome
is correct and represents the entire population equally. In a case where the population size is
known, it is advisable to use proportions rather than random selection of the sampl...
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