a) A cosmetic company's ad in a popular women's magazine claims that 80% of women find...

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a. This is the case of voluntary response sampling, because the in-survey mail in

are basically the volunteers who have replied to the survey sent through mails

b. No.

Why? the number 1200 may not be the correct representation of the woman
population and hence it may be wrong to conclude this.

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