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alejandro wants to determine the average shoe size of all of the male students in his school. which sample is likely to yield the most biased results? every tenth boy on the schools phone list every member of the boys basketball team every boy in a randomly selected ninth-, tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth - grade gym class every fifth boy who walks through the front doors of the school in the morning
Basketball players generally have larger - than - average shoe sizes due to their physical characteristics and the demands of the sport. This sample is not representative of all male students in the school, which will lead to biased results. Other samples are more likely to be more representative of the general male student population.
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B. every member of the boys’ basketball team