The Polson Pole and Fence Company Recently Did a Quality

question 23

Multiple Choice

The Polson Pole and Fence Company recently did a quality check on the length of fence posts. To do this, each of the 400 posts in inventory was numbered. Numbers from 1 to 400 were placed in a bowl. Twenty numbers were selected from the bowl without looking. These 20 poles were the ones selected for the study. This type of sampling is called:

• A) cluster sampling.
• B) simple random sampling.
• C) nonstatistical.
• D) convenience sampling.

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