A university professor is conducting a study about why Americans watch a popular new sitcom. Which of the following groups would be a nonprobability sample for this research?

a. Students randomly selected from the professor's classes
b. Subjects who are randomly selected from volunteers who responded to acommercial for the study that had been placed in the sitcom
c. Volunteers who responded to a commercial for the study that had beenplaced in the sitcom
d. All of the above


d

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What will be an ideal response?

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