A teacher needs to find out how many seventh-grade students will be going on a field trip. Which best describes the population that the teacher should survey?

The teacher needs information about which seventh-grade students will attend, so the survey should target the people who can report for those students: their parents. Surveying parents of all students would include families outside seventh grade, while surveying teachers or every student in the school would not match the specific group as directly. The best choice is the parents of the seventh-grade students.

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