The 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health selected a random sample of U.S.college students and asked them about illicit drug use.Roughly 23% of the students surveyed reported using illicit drugs in the past year.The population in this study is:
A) U.S.college students.
B) the 23% of the students who reported using illicit drugs.
C) the college students who responded to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
D) all U.S.adults.

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The population in this study is U.S. college students as they were the group being studied and sampled from. Option B only includes those who reported using illicit drugs, which is a subset of the population being studied. Option C includes only those who responded to the survey, which may not necessarily represent the entire population of U.S. college students. Option D includes all U.S. adults, which is not the same as the population being studied.

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