In order to estimate the ratio of white to black students in his college, a professor determines the proportion of whites and blacks in his class. The students of the entire college are called a _________

a. sample c. statistic
b. population d. parameter


B

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a. She will be given tokens for every cigarette she smokes. b. She will be shown increasingly more disgusting pictures of the lungs of smokers. c. She will smoke a pipe with flavored tobacco. d. Smoke will be blown into her face as she smokes a cigarette.

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Moving from the fovea to the outer margins of the retina, a. rods and cones are evenly distributed

b. the concentration of rods decreases and the concentration of cones increases. c. the concentration of cones decreases and the concentration of rods increases. d. rods and cones are concentrated in distinct clusters.

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