Determine whether the statement describes a population or a sample. The annual salaries of all the professors at the local college.

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Samantha

31 December, 15:33

Determine whether the statement describes a population or a sample. The annual salaries of all the professors at the local college.

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Riya Arellano · Answer 1

Population

Explanation:

When we do research we usually work with populations or samples:

A population refers to all the elements that belong to a set of data. A sample is a subset of said population. In other words, it refers to some elements that belong to the original set.

In this example, we have the annual salaries of ALL the professors at the local college. Since we are taking ALL the elements from the set of professors, this would be an example of population (if we were taking just a few professors then it would be a sample)