To discover whether residents of a city are in favour of building a new sports stadium, the team's owner randomly selected and interviewed 500 of the city's 500,000 residents. In this instance, what do we call the 500 people whom the owner interviewed?

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The 500 people whom the owner interviewed are called the representative sample as they are a subset of the larger population (500,000 residents) and are chosen randomly to represent the views and opinions of the population as a whole.

To Discover Whether Residents of a City Are in Favour