The Transportation Department at University of Houston wishes to determine what type of campus transportation system is preferred by UH's 30,000 undergraduate students.Data is collected from 400 undergraduate students enrolled in one section of Freshman English Literature.What type of sample is being utilized in this project?
A)Stratified sample
B)Nonprobability sample
C)Objective sample
D)Probability sample
E)User sample

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The sample is a nonprobability sample because it is not randomly selected from the entire population of 30,000 undergraduate students, but rather from a specific group (students in one section of Freshman English Literature).

The Transportation Department at University of Houston Wishes to Determine