In a recent study, volunteers who had 8 hours of sleep were three times more likely to correctly on a math test than were sleep-deprived participants. 1) Identify the sample used in the study.
A) The sample is the math questions in the study.
B) The sample is the responses of the volunteers in the study.
C) The sample is the amount of sleep the volunteers got in the study.
D) The sample is the sleep-deprived participants in the study.
2) What is the sample's population?
A) The population is the collection of all the math questions from the math test.
B) The population is the collection of the responses of all individuals who completed the math test.
C) The population is the collection of all the individuals who completed the math test.
3) Which part of the study represents the descriptive branch of statistics?