Instruction 8-18
A poll was conducted by the marketing department of a video game company to determine the popularity of a new game that was targeted to be launched in three months. Telephone interviews with 1,500 young adults were conducted which revealed that 49% said they would purchase the new game. The margin of error was ±3 percentage points.
-Referring to Instruction 8-18,the size of the population is 1,500.

Question

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The size of the population refers to the total group of individuals from which the sample (in this case, the 1,500 young adults interviewed) is drawn. The population size would be the total number of young adults that the game could potentially reach, not the number of people surveyed.

Instruction 8-18 a Poll Was Conducted by the Marketing Department of a of a Video