Carol wants to find out the favorite foods of students at her middle school. she asks the boys’ basketball team about their favorite foods is this a random sample or biased sample?

Hello there, the sample will be biased, because she only asked to a group of people ( in this case the  basketball team)

If you want a random sample, you need to ask people at random, and avoid asking in groups (like sports teams, classmates and groups of friends), for example, a way of doing this is ask at every third student that she sees passing throw the door of the school.

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