A Researcher Wishes to Estimate the Textbook Costs of First-Year

question 91

Multiple Choice

A researcher wishes to estimate the textbook costs of first-year students at Barry University.To do so,he recorded the textbook cost of 300 first-year students and found that their average textbook cost was $195 per semester.The variable of interest to the researcher is

• A)textbook cost.
• B)class rank.
• C)number of students.
• D)name of university.

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