Noxious Weeds Are Invasive Plants That Quickly Spread and Deplete

Multiple Choice

Noxious weeds are invasive plants that quickly spread and deplete the soil of nutrients that are required for all aspects of farming and ranching. With much at stake, the state of Montana has hired a team of researchers to explore the issue. They want to know the average number of noxious weeds per acre in North Central Montana. To do so, researchers divided the area of interest into 1,000,000 acres and randomly selected 24 of these acres. For each selected acre, they counted and removed the noxious weeds. The sample mean was 103.47 weeds, and the sample standard deviation was 46.034 weeds. Below is the simulated bootstrap distribution of 1,000 sample means they created from resampling the observed data.
-What is the population of interest?

A) All acres in North Central Montana
B) The 24 selected acres in the sample
C) The true mean number of noxious weeds per acre in North Central Montana
D) The sample mean number of noxious weeds per acre