To estimate how many voters in a city of 20 lakh voters favour a new metro line, 500 of them are asked. What is the population here?

The 500 voters askedCorrect answerYour answerAll 20 lakh voters of the cityCorrect answerYour answerThe voters who favour the lineCorrect answerYour answerThe people who will ride the metroCorrect answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer B

Correct answer: B

The population is the whole group the question is about; the sample is the part actually studied.
Here the population is all 20 lakh voters, and the 500 asked are the sample.

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The 500 voters are the sample, the part used to learn about the whole.

Concept: Population and sample
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To estimate how many voters in a city of 20 lakh voters favour a new metro line, 500 of them are asked. What is the population here?

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