Michael and Kevin are trying to determine whether students at Kennedy Middle School enjoy playing sports. Michael thinks that they should survey every student at school, but Kevin thinks that will take too long and they should instead use a computer program to randomly select 50 students to survey. Whose plan will be more efficient?
Kevin's plan to use a computer program to randomly select 50 students to survey will be more efficient than Michael's plan to survey every student at school. Surveying every student at school would take a considerable amount of time and effort, especially if the school has a large number of students. Using a computer program to randomly select 50 students, on the other hand, would allow them to gather a representative sample of the student population in a much shorter amount of time.
