Suppose that a researcher is interested in a group of 10 million people who paid to see a movie playing in theaters.In this example,the 10 million moviegoers would be regarded as
A)a sample of moviegoers who paid to see the movie in a theater
B)a population of moviegoers who paid to see the movie in a theater
C)an independent variable
D)a dependent variable

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The 10 million moviegoers are the entire group of individuals that the researcher is interested in studying, so they represent a population of moviegoers who paid to see the movie in a theater. Option A would be incorrect because a sample is a subset of a population, not the entire population itself. Options C and D are not applicable in this scenario because the moviegoers are not independent or dependent variables.

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