Parking at a Large University Has Become a Very Big

question 59

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 experimental unit of interest to the university
administration.

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

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