Babies on Airplanes

Airline companies are interested in the consistency of the number of babies on each flight, so that they have adequate safety equipment. Suppose an airline conducts a survey. Over Thanksgiving weekend, it surveys eight flights from Boston to Salt Lake City to determine the number of babies on the flights. It determines the amount of safety equipment needed by the result of that study.

Part 1

Please select all of the issues with how the survey was conducted.

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Part 2

Please select all of the ways the survey could be improved.

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Attribution

Problem is from the OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e textbook, licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.