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As part of a statistics project, a teacher brings a bag of marbles containing 800 white marbles and 200 red marbles. She asks her students to determine how many red marbles are in the bag without counting them.
A student randomly draws 150 marbles from the bag. Of the 150 marbles, 35 are red.
A)The target population consists of
- The 1000 marbles in the bag
- The 150 marbles drawn by the student
- The 200 red marbles in the bag
- The 35 red marbles drawn by the student
- None of the above
B)The sample consists of
- None of the above
- The 150 marbles drawn by the student
- The 200 red marbles in the bag
- The 1000 marbles in the bag
- The 35 red marbles drawn by the student
c)Based on the sample, the student would estimate that _______marbles in the bag were red
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