If 12% of the American population is Hispanic, what percentage of a stratified sample would be Hispanic?

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A stratified sample is designed to represent the proportions of different subgroups within the population. Therefore, if 12% of the American population is Hispanic, then a stratified sample would have the same percentage of Hispanics, which is 12%. The answer is not A) 6% or B) 24% because those percentages do not reflect the actual proportion of Hispanics in the population, and it is not D) 88% because that percentage would over-represent the Hispanic subgroup in the sample.

If 12% of the American Population Is Hispanic, What Percentage