Question

A researcher wants to know how undergraduate college students at her university feel about a list of 1196 undergraduate college students at her university, selects 500 of them at random, and emails a questionnaire to them 107 questionnaires are returned. Of these, 71% stated that they believe that the federal student loan program needs to be completely overhauled. Classify the following groups as the population or the sample for this particular study. If a group does not belong in either category, leave it unplaced.
Population
all undergraduate college students all researcher's university
the 1196 undergraduate college students whose names were obtained
the proportion of all undergraduate college students at the researcher's university who believe that the federal student loan program needs to be completely overhauled
Sample
the 500 undergraduate college students who were randomly choosen
the 71% who stated that the federal student loan program needs to be completely overhauled

Answer 1

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Answer:

Population

All undergraduate college students at the  researcher's university ,

Sample

The 107 undergraduate college students who returned the questionnaire

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that

   The list of undergraduate college students obtained from her university is  n= 1196

     The number of student that are randomly selected is  n =  500

      The number of e-mail that was returned is  k = 107

     The proportion that believes that the federal student loan program needs to be completely overhauled is  $\^{p} = 0.71$

Generally the population for this particular study is

All undergraduate college students at the  researcher's university ,

this is because they are the total pool of data from which the statistical sample are randomly selected from

Generally the sample for this particular study is

The 107 undergraduate college students who returned the questionnaire

 this is because this data provides us with an insight on the perspective of all undergraduate college students at the researcher's university about federal financial  aid