Isabella is conducting a study of American middle-school science teachers' beliefs about content area reading. She obtains a list of all the middle-school science teachers in the state who are members of the National Reading Conference NRC). She lists all of the names and selects every third name as a participant in her study.
-Who is the available population in Isabella's study?
A) All science teachers in the state.
B) All middle school science teachers in the country.
C) All science teachers in the state who are interested in reading.
D) All middle school science teachers in the state who are members of NRC.

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The available population in Isabella's study is the middle school science teachers in the state who are members of the National Reading Conference (NRC), as these are the individuals from whom Isabella obtained her list of names and selected her participants. The other options (A, B, and C) are not the available population, as Isabella did not obtain her list of names from all science teachers in the state, all middle school science teachers in the country, or all science teachers in the state who are interested in reading.

Isabella Is Conducting a Study of American Middle-School Science Teachers