The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 18 - Inference in Practice - Check Your Skills - Page 434: 18.20

Answer

(c).

Work Step by Step

Members of the soccer team are in healthier on average than most students, thus we cannot generalize the confidence interval based on the soccer team members to the entire population of all students Thus the members of the soccer team cannot be considered as a random sample of all of the students. Thus the answer is (c).
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