Question

Honoring the 1th annoversay of its award-winning series, the american film institute (AFI) again conducted a poll of 1500 film artist, critics and historians, asking them to pick their 100 favourite films from a list of 400. The films on the list were made between 1915 and 2005.After tallying the responses, AFI complied a list representing the top 100 films.

a. Identify the population

b. identify the sample

c. Is the sample representative of the population all US moviegoers?

Answer 1

Answer:

Given,

a)

Population:

Here we can say that population means the whole arrangement of perceptions gathered from the different measurable reviews.

i.e.,

Here in the given problem,

AFI was conducting a poll of 1500 film artist, critics and historians. so they were the population.

b)

Sample;

Here the sample is that the piece of populace to characterize the qualities of populace.

So 100 favorite films is the sample.

c)

Here we can say that  the sample cannot be representative due to that it includes the additional people with different experiences.