A newspaper publisher wants to check its daily output of about 300,000 newspapers to be sure each includes a comics section. Explain how the publisher could do this.

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Marely Curry

13 August, 20:47

A newspaper publisher wants to check its daily output of about 300,000 newspapers to be sure each includes a comics section. Explain how the publisher could do this.

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Jonah Sparks · Answer 1

The newspaper publisher should check a random sample of the newspapers to avoid a biased sample. The sample needs to be large enough to be representative of the population