Your professor hands you a sealed bag of potato chips and asks you to open the bag and take out two scoops of chips.The scoops of chips are analogous to _____.

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The scoops of chips are a sample because they are a smaller subset taken from the larger population of chips in the bag. The professor may be using these scoops as a representation of the larger population of chips in order to make inferences or draw conclusions about the bag as a whole.

Your Professor Hands You a Sealed Bag of Potato Chips