Question

A research team is curious about the relationship between exercise habits and academic performance among American college students. In order to get their data, the researchers randomly select seventeen colleges by pulling names out of a hat and traveling to campuses, where they stand in prominent public places and ask for volunteers until they have ten people from each campus willing to be interviewed. What is the researchers’ target population?
A. students at the seventeen colleges they visited
B. American college students
C. the 170 students who were interviewed
D. young people

Answer 1

Answer:

C. the 170 students who were interviewed

Explanation:

In research, target population refers to a group of individuals from which the samples that are used for the research are being drawn from.

From the description above, we know that 'the researchers randomly select seventeen colleges by pulling names out of a hat and traveling to campuses'. This means that those 170 students were the target population