Martiza plays in a softball league. She wants to know about how many 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.

Answer 1

In this scenario, the population is all the players in the softball league, which consists of 225 players. Maritza takes a sample of 45 players from this population to ask if they also play basketball.

Population:
- Size: 225 softball players
- Characteristics: All players in the softball league

Sample:
- Size: 45 softball players
- Characteristics: The specific subset of 45 players chosen by Maritza for her study

Maritza will use the responses from the 45 player sample to make an inference about the entire population of 225 players in the league who play basketball.