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Next Question A polling organization contacts 2170 female university graduates who have a white collar job and asks whether or not they had received a raise at work during the past 6 months What is the population in the study? 0 A. Female university graduates who have received a raise at work. O B. Female university graduates who have a white collar job and have received a raise at work O C. Female university graduates who have a white collar job. O D. Female university graduates. What is the sample in the study? O A. Female university graduates B. Female university graduates who have a white collar job. O C. The 2170 female university graduates who have received a raise at work. ( D. The 2170 female university graduates who have a white collar job.

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a) The population is the whole thing which contains all the female university graduates who have got white collar jobs. Therefore C is the correct answer here. Note that the parameter that that whether they received a raise or not is a parameter not the whole population criteria.

b) The sample is the part of the population that is drawn to get a statistic and hence is used to estimate a parameter.

Therefore the 2170 female university graduates who have a white collar job is the correct answer here.

Therefore D is the correct answer here.

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