1. VOCABULARY Why would you survey a sample instead of a population?

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And the reason is that for most purposes we can obtain suitable accuracy quickly and inexpensively on information gained from a sample. The bottom line is it would be wasteful and foolish to use the entire population when a sample, drawn scientifically, provides accuracy in representing your population of interest.

It can go into the group integers, as well as rational numbers.

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