Suppose you want to find out which candidate college students will vote for in an upcoming national election.To be sure the sample of college students you survey is representative of the college student population,you should
A) survey only a small sample of college students.
B) survey only politically informed college students.
C) survey every college student on your own campus.
D) survey a large representative sample of the college student population.

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To ensure that the sample of college students surveyed is representative of the college student population, it is necessary to survey a large representative sample. Only sampling a small group may not provide a complete picture of the population, while only surveying politically informed students or only surveying students on your own campus would lead to a biased sample. Therefore, option D is the best choice.

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