1. Lin is running in an election to be president of the seventh grade. She wants to predict her chances of winning. She has the following ideas for surveying a sample of the students who will be voting: 1.Ask everyone on her basketball team who they are voting for.
2.Ask every third girl waiting in the lunch line who they are voting for.
3.Ask the first 15 students to arrive at school one morning who they are voting for.

•Would the different methods for selecting a sample lead to different conclusions about the population?
•What are the benefits of each method?
•What might each method overlook?
•Which of the methods listed would be the most likely to produce samples that are representative of the population being studied?
•Can you think of a better way to select a sample for this situation?

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