Question

A sportswriter wants to know how strongly Lafayette residents support the local minor league baseball team, the Lafayette Leopards.  She stands outside the stadium before a game and interviews the first 20 people who enter the stadium.

The sample for the survey is:

	a.	all residents of Lafayette.
	b.	all people attending the game the day the survey was conducted.
	c.	all Leopard fans.
	d.	the sportswriter.
	e.	the 20 people who gave the sportswriter their opinion.

Answer 1

Option a) is not correct because the soprts writer interviews only 20 people

Option b) is not correct because she is not interviewing all people attending the game that day . the sample size is 20

Option c) is not correct because sample size is small and there may be more than 20 Leopard fans

Option d) is not correct because we cant say that the interviewed 20 people will be soprtswriter

Optione) is correct because here she use baised conveninent sampling and interviwed only first 20 people who enetr the stadium, therefore the sample for the survey is the 20 people who gave the sportswriter their opinion.

Answer : Option e) is correct.