What is the defining characteristic of a random sample? it ensures that every person in the sample represents a specific racial, gender, or religious group. it consists of an equal number of men and women. it is created by asking questions of people who randomly happen to walk by. it gives each person in the population of interest an equal chance of being chose?

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Emmalee Barrett

18 August, 23:09

What is the defining characteristic of a random sample? it ensures that every person in the sample represents a specific racial, gender, or religious group. it consists of an equal number of men and women. it is created by asking questions of people who randomly happen to walk by. it gives each person in the population of interest an equal chance of being chose?

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Option D. In a random sample it gives each person in the population of interest the same possibility of being chosen because this type of sample is a selection of a number of observations that are taken in a population and form part of an unpredictable method of Independent observations with distribution of the same possibilities that assigns to each person the same possibility.