Sandra is doing research to determine how common cheating is among students at Duke University.The student body at Duke will serve as her:
A) dependent variable.
B) population.
C) random sample.
D) hypothesis.

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The student body at Duke University is the entire group that Sandra is interested in studying, hence it serves as her population. A random sample from this population would be selected for data collection and analysis. The dependent variable would be some measure of cheating behavior, and the hypothesis would be a tentative statement about the relationship or difference between variables of interest.

Sandra Is Doing Research to Determine How Common Cheating Is