16) Parking at a university has become a problem. University administrators are

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16) Parking at a university has become a problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average time it takes a student to find a parking spot. An administrator inconspicuously followed 120 students and recorded how long it took each of them to find a parking spot. Identify the population of interest to the university administration.

A) the students who park at the university between 9 and 10 AM on Wednesdays

B) the 120 students about whom the data were collected

C) the entire set of faculty, staff, and students who park at the university

D) the entire set of students who park at the university

Explanation / Answer

Population consists of entires set of possible data, whose subset is taken in study. Since university admins are interested in average parkig time of students, the population is:

D) the entire set of students who park at the university

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