Obtain a Simple Random Sample

question 60

Multiple Choice

Obtain a Simple Random Sample
-The city council of a small town needs to determine if the town s residents will support the building of a new library. The council decides to conduct a survey of a sample of the town s residents. Which one of the following procedures would be most appropriate for obtaining a sample of the town s residents

• A) Survey a random sample of persons within each neighborhood of the town.
• B) Survey a random sample of librarians who live in the town.
• C) Survey 400 individuals who are randomly selected from a list of all people living in the state in which the
• D) Survey every 14th person who enters the old library on a given day.

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