Parking at a Large University Has Become a Very Big

question 55

Multiple Choice

Parking at a large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 250 students and carefully recorded their parking times. Identify the variable of interest to the university administration.

• A) a single student that parks at the university
• B) the entire set of students that park at the university
• C) the parking time, defined to be the amount of time the student spent finding a parking spot
• D) the 250 students that data was collected from

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