DailyDiet Wants to Collect Data About Employee Satisfaction Within Its

question 13

Multiple Choice

DailyDiet wants to collect data about employee satisfaction within its organization. It decides to survey a sample of 500 employees by having a computer program automatically pick which employees will be in the sample. If it uses the payroll database as the list of names to choose from, which type of sampling method is Daily Diet using?

• A) Random sampling
• B) Sampling populations
• C) Stratified sampling
• D) Nonprobability sampling
• E) Quota sampling

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Definitions:

Pareto Optimal

A state of allocation of resources from which it is impossible to reallocate without making at least one individual or preference criterion worse off.

Marginal Rate of Substitution (MRS)

The marginal rate of substitution is the rate at which a consumer is willing to substitute one good for another while keeping the utility level constant.

Cobb-Douglas Utility Functions

A mathematical representation of consumer preferences that shows how utility depends on the consumption of different goods, characterized by constant elasticity of substitution.

Pareto Optimal

A state of allocation of resources from which it is impossible to reallocate to make any one individual or preference criterion better off without making at least one individual or preference criterion worse off.