A statistics student found a reference in the campus library that contained the official poverty rate for all Australian states and territories.She would report her data as being collected using
A) a designed experiment.
B) a published source.
C) a random sample.
D) observational data.

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The data was collected from a published source, which means it was already available and did not require any active data collection. Therefore, it was not an experiment or observational data, and there is no mention of a random sample being taken.

A Statistics Student Found a Reference in the Campus Library