A quality-control manager randomly selects 20 bottles of tomato sauce that were filled on November 7 to assess the calibration of the filling machine. What is the population in the study?
Answer: The population in the study is the bottles of tomato sauce produced in the plant on November 7.
Population is the total set of observations which is of interest for some study. For example: if we want to know the weight of new born babies, all the new born babies comprise of population.
Therefore, in the given example, the population is the bottles of tomato sauce produced in the plant on November 7.
