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

question 18

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,the 5,000 students who are registered at the campus would be

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

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