Question

Mrs. Bell, the librarian at Elm Lawn Middle School, is purchasing new books for the library. To help her decide what books to buy, she wants to know the genre of the last book that the students at her school read for fun. Since it would take a long time to survey all the students at the school, she emailed surveys to randomly selected students, and 48 of them responded. Mrs. Bell finds that the most common genre is mystery.
What are the population and the sample of Mrs. Bell's survey?
The population for this survey is
. The sample

Answer 1

The population for Mrs. Bell's survey is **all the students at Elm Lawn Middle School**. The sample is **the 48 randomly selected students who responded to the email survey**.