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Choose all of the following scenarios below that contain biased samples.
1. Kelly wants to estimate the mean number of calories consumed by students at her school. She collects data from randomly selected individuals in the cafeteria for breakfast.
2. To estimate the ethnic background distribution of residents of her town, Deborah collects data from 1000 randomly selected town residents by using a random number generator.
3. To estimate the mean amount of money spent on clothes per week by mall shoppers, Paul collects data from every 10th person entering a clothing store at the mall.
4. Homer wants to estimate the mean grade point average of students at his school. He collects data by recording the grade point average of every 25th student on the list of students after a randomly selected first student.

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Answer:

1 and 3 are biased

Step-by-step explanation:

A biased sample is ond where all individuals were not given equal likelihood of being selected.

Number 1;

Picking students from the cafeteria would lead to sampling bias because not every student from the school eats from the cafeteria. Those she selected can not be used to account for the whole school. Those that use the cafeteria are only a representation of the whole school and not the entire school.

For number 3:

Paul is interested in finding the mean number of cloth shoppers In a mall and is only collecting data from one clothing store without considering other stores in the mall.

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Answer:

answer is (2)

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