Representative of the population of the united states

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Shortly after the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by terrorists, America Online ran a poll of its Internet subscribers and asked this question: "Should the World Trade Center towers be rebuilt?" Among the 1,304,240 responses, 768,731 answered yes, 286,756 answered no, and 248,753 said that it was too soon to decide. Given that this sample is extremely large, can the responses be considered to be representative of the population of the United States? Explain.

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