Miranda is conducting a poll to determine how many students would attend a students-only school dance if one was held. Which sample is most likely to yield a representative sample for the poll?

A. twenty names from each grade pulled blindly from a container filled with the names of the entire student body written on slips of paper

B. every tenth person walking down Main Street in town at different times of the day

C. all of the students who write into the school newspaper

D. every student from all of Miranda's classes

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Dennis Randall

14 March, 12:32

Miranda is conducting a poll to determine how many students would attend a students-only school dance if one was held. Which sample is most likely to yield a representative sample for the poll?

A. twenty names from each grade pulled blindly from a container filled with the names of the entire student body written on slips of paper

B. every tenth person walking down Main Street in town at different times of the day

C. all of the students who write into the school newspaper

D. every student from all of Miranda's classes

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Rishi Gutierrez · Answer 1

A would be the best representative sample because it take random samples from the student body.

Franco Cochran · Answer 2

It would be option A because option B wouldn't be just students, only specific students would actually write to the school newspaper, and it is biased to only choose students in Miranda's classes, there are many who aren't in her class. Only option A is just students and is random or unbiased.