A reporter for a school newspaper wants to estimate the percent of students who plan to vote for Candidate A in the upcoming student council election. In order to do this, she obtains a sample of 96...

A reporter for a school newspaper wants to estimate the percent of students who plan to vote for Candidate A in the upcoming student council election. In order to do this, she obtains a sample of 96 students by polling them as they walk out of the school cafeteria. Which of the following statements is true?

O The 96 students that the reporter polls is the population of interest.

o The percent of students that the reporter wants to estimate is a statistic.

O None of the above statements are true.

o. The students that are polled is a simple random sample.