Parking at a Large University Has Become a Very Big

question 23

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 250 students that data was collected from
• D)the parking time, defined to be the amount of time the student spent finding a parking spot

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