Question

Maritza plays in a softball league. She wants to know about how many players in the league also play basketball. Because there are 225 players in the league, she chooses the names of 45 of the players and asks them whether they also play basketball. Describe the population and the sample. What is the size of the population, and what is the size of the sample? Please show your work.(2 points)

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

The population in this scenario is all the players in the softball league, which consists of 225 players. Maritza selects 45 players to ask about playing basketball, which makes this group the sample.

Population size: 225 players
Sample size: 45 players