Parking at a Large University Has Become a Very Big

question 5

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 data collection method used by the administration in this study.

• A) data from a published source
• B) data from a designed experiment
• C) data collected observationally

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