A newspaper writer will write an article about the mean age of voters. She will estimate by selecting a sample of voters and calculating their mean age.
Which method should the writer use to select the sample?
A) Select 100 people who voted in the last election and are more than 30 years old
B) Randomly select 100 people who voted in the last election
C) Select 100 people who voted for the most popular candidate in the last election.
D) Randomly select 100 people who read the newspaper
The mean is the average so, in this case, the average age of the voters. To get the average the person must take 100 random people who voted, as taking any others will not give them the average age.
