A sample is said to be representative when
A) a sponsoring organization uses the sample data to sell a product.
B) researchers are interested only in the opinions of people in the sample.
C) it exhibits the same distribution of characteristics as the population from which it was drawn.
D) all of these

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A representative sample is one that exhibits the same distribution of characteristics as the population from which it was drawn. While a sponsoring organization may use sample data to sell a product and researchers may be interested in the opinions of people in the sample, these factors alone do not make the sample representative.

A Sample Is Said to Be Representative When