For a class project, you want to survey students at your school for their opinions about the importance of studying. You go to the campus library and survey two hundred students as they are leaving the library.
In this situation, your survey results will
A) be exact since the information came from a census.
B) likely be biased since typically only people with strong opinions will participate.
C) likely be biased since most students leaving the library were there to study.
D) be very accurate since the information came from a simple random sample.

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The survey results are likely to be biased because it specifically targets students leaving the library, who are more likely to have been there for studying purposes. This does not represent the entire student population's opinions about the importance of studying, as it excludes those who might study elsewhere or not at all.

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