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LaDunn · **on:** Jun 24, 2018

Parking at a large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 250 students and carefully recorded their parking times. Identify the data collection method used by the administration in this study.

A) data from a designed experiment
B) data collected observationally
C) data from a published source

Question 2

What method of data collection would you use to collect data for a study where a political pollster wishes to determine if his candidate is leading in the polls?

A) survey B) designed experiment
C) published source D) observational study