The Tinned Fruit Company introduced a new range of mid-sized tins of fruit earlier this year. The company claims that the mean weight of these tins of fruit are on average 200g, with a standard deviation of 12g. Recently however, a consumer organisation has received a number of complaints from consumers who believe that the mean weight of their tins containing nectarines is actually less than 200g. To investigate this discrepancy, the consumer organisation randomly selects 1500 tins of nectarines produced in July and records the weight of these tins. This sample is then used to assess whether the company is marketing tins of nectarines that weigh on average less than 200g

a. What is the population we can draw conclusions about in this study?