Question

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 240 students and recorded how long it took each of them to find a parking spot. Identify the population of interest to the university administration.

Answer 1

In this particular case,the target population of interest to the university administration constitutes the university students.

Explanation:

• The university administration is interested to conduct a statistical study to identify the average or mean time taken by the students to find a vacant parking spot.
• Therefore,the research topic here is the average time taken by the university students to find parking spot. The administrator collects an inconspicuous sample of 240 samples from the target population of the study,which is the overall student population of the university.
• The sample collected by the university administration is used to observe the average or mean parking time by the university students.