A farmer wants to find out the average number of apples produced by the apple trees in his orchard. Which could be a sample of the population?

A sample is a smaller group selected from the population being studied. Here, the population is all the apple trees in the orchard, so some of those apple trees could serve as a sample. One tree is also a smaller group, but choice C describes a sample of trees rather than just a single tree.

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