Question

miranda is conducting a poll to determine how many students would attend a students-only school dance if one was held. which sample is most likely to yield a representative sample for the poll? twenty names from each grade pulled blindly from a container filled with the names of the entire student body written on slips of paper every tenth person walking down main street in town at different times of the day all of the students who write into the school newspaper every student from all of miranda’s classes

Explanation:

To get a representative sample for a school - wide poll about student attendance at a dance, the sample should be random and cover the entire student body.

• The option "twenty names from each grade pulled blindly from a container filled with the names of the entire student body written on slips of paper" is a random sampling method that includes students from all grades, so it is likely to be representative.
• The option "every tenth person walking down Main Street in town at different times of the day" includes people who may not be students of the school, so it is not representative of the student body.
• The option "all of the students who write into the school newspaper" represents only a subset of students who are interested in writing to the newspaper, not the entire student body.
• The option "every student from all of Miranda’s classes" represents only the students in Miranda's classes, not the entire student body.

Answer:

A. twenty names from each grade pulled blindly from a container filled with the names of the entire student body written on slips of paper