The political science class randomly selected 150 adults from the community in order to obtain their opinions on the upcoming presidential race.This group of 150 people would be considered the
A) representative sample.
B) experimental group.
C) population.
D) control group.

Question

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The group of 150 people selected from the community is a representative sample, meaning it is a smaller subset of the population (which would be all adults in the community) used to make inferences about the larger group. The other answer choices are not fitting descriptions for this situation.

The Political Science Class Randomly Selected 150 Adults from the Community