Question

In a class of 150 students, a study was

conducted to find out the food consumption pattern. Out of the 80 students surveyed, 20% of the students were vegetarians. With reference to above situation, identify the population and sample.

Answer 1

Population will be the 150 students and sample will be the 80 students.

Explanation:

• Population refers to the total number of people or organisms in a given place or area.

• Sample refers to the number of people or object which is taken for studying or experimenting from a given population.

• In the above mentioned example, as there are 150 total number of students in the class hence 150 will be the population.

• As 80 out of 150 are taken understudy, hence 80 will be the sample number.