To Determine Whether Students Would Like More Courses Scheduled in the Late-Afternoon

question 179

Multiple Choice

To determine whether students would like more courses scheduled in the late-afternoon and evening hours,the Student Services department sends questionnaires to 50 students selected at random from the 5,000 who are registered at the campus.In this instance,what do we call the 5,000 students who are registered at the campus

• A) an independent variable 
• B) the biased sample 
• C) the population 
• D) the representative sample

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