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A software company is designing a new note-taking application to use on tablets, targeting college students. The company wants to know how likely students who take notes on their tablets will be to use the new app. If the company wants to send this new app to 100 people to try it out, who should it send the app to?

Option #1: randomly selected students who take notes on their tablets

Option #2: randomly selected students, regardless of the way they take notes

Option #3: randomly selected students who take notes by hand with a pen and notebook

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Option #1.

Reason: the target population is students who take notes on tablets, so you should randomly sample from that population to get an unbiased estimate of how likely they are to use the app. Options 2 and 3 include many people who aren’t tablet note‑takers and would give a biased result.