Question

A soft drink company is developing a new flavor. To gather customer feedback, the company offers samples of the new drink at food shows all around the state of Texas and observes the fraction of those who tried the drink who finished the sample. To which population is it reasonable to generalize the result of this observational study?(1 point)
Responses

consumers in Texas
consumers in Texas

consumers in the entire country
consumers in the entire country

consumers internationally
consumers internationally

consumers in San Antonio, Texas, where one of the food shows was held

Answer 1

consumers in Texas

Reason: samples were collected at food shows across Texas, so the results can reasonably be generalized to Texas consumers (more precisely, Texas food-show attendees), but not to the whole country or internationally.