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crazycityslicker · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

An assembly line is operating satisfactorily if fewer than 6 of the phones produced per day are defective. To check the quality of a day's production, the company randomly samples 50 phones from a day's production to test for defects.

Define the population of interest to the manufacturer.
A) the 6 of the phones that are defective
B) all the phones produced during the day in question
C) the 50 phones sampled and tested
D) the 50 responses: defective or not defective

Question 2

Parking at a university has become a problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average time it takes a student to find a parking spot.

An administrator inconspicuously followed 100 students and recorded how long it took each of them to find a parking spot. Identify the population of interest to the university administration.
A) the students who park at the university between 9 and 10 AM on Wednesdays
B) the 100 students about whom the data were collected
C) the entire set of faculty, staff, and students who park at the university
D) the entire set of students who park at the university