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 100 students and carefully recorded their parking times. Identify the sample of interest to the university administration.
A) parking times of the 100 students
B) parking time of a student
C) location of the parking spot
D) type of car (import or domestic)

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The sample of interest is the parking times of the 100 students because the university administrators are trying to determine the average parking time, and these are the observations they collected for that purpose.

Parking at a Large University Has Become a Very Big