- (D) The population in Matt’s study is the Northeastern High School student body. The population is
defined as anyone who could have been in the study. Since Matt took a random sample of the
whole student body, they all had a chance to be in the study. The group of 100 students who
actually took the survey is known as the sample. American students, high school students in Maine,
and high school students throughout the world are all groups that Matt might be interested in, and
they might be closer to what you think of when you think of the word population, but they are not
the population in this study because no one who was not attending Northeastern High School had
the chance to be in Matt’s study.
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