A research group is interested in gauging perceptions about costs o f textbooks

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A research group is interested in gauging perceptions about costs o f textbooks among college students. Specifically, they wish to determine the percentage o f first year students in the United States that believe costs o f textbooks are too expensive. They use an alphabetized Kst of students o f the state run universities and use technology to generate a randomly shuffled list of the students. They then select students to contact from this list until they have succeeded in contacting 200 students. Complete parts (a) through (d) below What is the population 200 students The state run universities The first year students in the United States The costs o f textbooks

Explanation / Answer

The population is the whole mass about which the the hypothesis is tested.

For example here the research group is interested in determining the percentage of first year students who believe that cost of text books are too expensive.

Hence the population is

C) The first year students in the United States

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