Determine whether each sample method is unbiased or biased. If themethod is unbiased, use it to make a prediction. If the method is biased,explain why ?Pete's Twisted Pretzels just received a new shipment of pretzel sticks. Themanager must make sure that the shipment has not been damaged. There are100 boxes, each containing 50 bags of pretzels. The manager decides to examineonly the nearest 5 boxes. He finds only 2 damaged packages. What can heconclude about the entire shipment?



Answer :

Answer:

The sampling method is a biased sampling method because the manager only preferred the 5 nearest boxes to him out of a total of 100 boxes. These 5 nearest boxes are not representative of the entire population since they were not randomly chosen and each box didn't have an equal chance of being selected.

Explanation:

In a biased sampling method, some members of the population are preferred over others, this means that some members of the population have a higher or lower probability of being sampled than others.

In an unbiased sampling method, each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected because, in this method, a representative of the entire population is being considered.

In the given question, we're told that there are 100 boxes, each containing 50 bags of pretzels but the manager decided to only examine only the nearest 5 boxes, We can see that this is a biased sampling because the manager only preferred the 5 nearest boxes to him. These 5 nearest boxes are not representative of the entire population since they were not randomly chosen and each box wasn't given a fair chance of being chosen.

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