1. Answer choices : all US botanists, all US diseases, all US soil, all US mushroom fields2. Answer choices: selected US botanists, selected US diseases, selected US soil, selected US mushroom fields3. Answer choices: Number of mushroom fields, Number of mushrooms, Percent of fields with disease, Number of States affected, Mineral levels in mushroom fields4. Answer choices: Census, Cluster sampling, Convenience sampling, Simple random sampling, Stratified sampling5. Answer choices: Experiment, Observational study, Simulation, Survey6. Answer choices: qualitative or quantitative7. Answer choices: continuous or discrete

Parts of Question Instructions: Carefully read the following scenario. Then identify the requested information. A botanist is studying a newly identified mushroom disease. The botanist collected soil samples from randomly selected fields in each state to see if there were significant differences the mineral levels in fields with and without the disease. 1. What is the population? 2. What is the sample? 3. What is the variable of interest? 4. How was the sample selected? 5. What method was used to collect the data? 6. Is the variable qualitative or quantitative? 7. Is the variable continuous or discrete