A research team is curious about the relationship between diet and exercise habits and academic performance among American college students. In order to get their data, the researchers randomly select seventeen colleges by pulling names out of a hat and travel to campuses, where they stand in prominent public places and ask for volunteers until they have ten people from each campus willing to be interviewed. What is the researchers' target population?

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The target population is American college students as this is the group being studied. The fact that the researchers randomly selected seventeen colleges and only interviewed ten people from each campus does not change the target population.

A Research Team Is Curious About the Relationship Between Diet