A college president wants to find out which courses students consider to be of the most benefit to them. Which procedure would be most likely to produce a statistically unbiased sample? Select one: a. having students complete a questionnaire on the college web site b. surveying a random sample of students taken from the list of all students c. asking students to mail in a questionnaire d. surveying the first hundred students on an alphabetical list
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