Student samples The university administration of Exercise 1 is considering a variety of ways to sample students for a survey. For each of these proposed survey designs, identify the problem.  a)...

Student samples The university administration of Exercise 1 is considering a variety of ways to sample students for a survey. For each of these proposed survey designs, identify the problem.

 a) Publish an advertisement inviting students to visit a website and answer questions.

 b) Set up a table in the student union and ask students to stop and answer a survey.

Exercise 1

Texas A&M Administrators at Texas A&M University were interested in estimating the percentage of students who are the first in their family to go to college. The A&M student body has about 46,000 members. How might the administrators answer their question by applying the three Big Ideas ?