Financial Analyst Larry Potts Needs a Sample of 100 Securities

question 29

Multiple Choice

Financial analyst Larry Potts needs a sample of 100 securities listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.The current issue of the Report on Business Magazine, has an alphabetical list of the 2,531 securities that are listed in the "Toronto Exchange Composite Transactions," an alphabetical listing of all securities traded on the previous business day.Larry uses a table of random numbers to select 100 numbers between 1 and 2,531.His sample is a ___.

• A)quota sample
• B)simple random sample
• C)systematic sample
• D)stratified sample
• E)cluster sample

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