A research group is interested in gauging perceptions about

A research group is interested in gauging perceptions about costs or textbooks among college students. Specifically, they wish to determine the percentage of first year students in the United States that believe costs of textbooks are too expensive. They use an alphabetized list of students of the state run universities and use technology to generate a randomly shuffled list of the students. They then select students to contact from this list until they have succeeded in contacting 200 students. Complete parts (a) through (d) below. What is the population? 200 students The state run universities The first year students in the United States The costs of textbooks What is the sampling frame? The research group 200 students The costs of textbooks The student listing from the state run universities

Solution

The population is the whole mass about which the the hypothesis is tested.

For example here the research group is interested in determining the percentage of first year students who believe that cost of text books are too expensive.

Hence the population is

C) The first year students in the United States