It is believed that about 37% of college students binge drink (5 or more drinks for men, and 4 or more drinks for women, in two hours). Administrators at a small university of 6,000 students want to do a study to determine if the proportion of their students who binge drink differs from 37%. They select a sample of 98 students enrolled at the university to survey about their drinking behavior. When generating the randomization distribution for this test, how large should each individual randomization sample be?
A) 98 because that is the size of the original sample
B) 1,000 to get an accurate randomization distribution
C) 6,000 because that is the size of the university
D) 2,220 because that is 37% of the students at the university

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The randomization distribution is generated by repeatedly taking random samples of the same size as the original sample from the population. In this case, the original sample size is 98, so each individual randomization sample should also be of size 98.

It Is Believed That About 37% of College Students Binge