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 interviewed are a representative sample because they were randomly selected from the population of the city. This means that the characteristics of the sample should reflect those of the larger population, allowing for accurate generalization of attitudes towards the new sports stadium. The choice of a representative sample is important for reducing bias and increasing the validity of research findings. Bias may occur in other types of sampling methods, such as a biased sample (B), where certain individuals or groups may be over or underrepresented, or from the population (C), which is too large to be interviewed in its entirety. The dependent variable (D) is the outcome being measured in a study and is not related to the sampling process.

To Discover Whether Residents of a City Are in Favour