A Researcher Wishes to Obtain Information About American Males in the Metro

question 52

Multiple Choice

A researcher wishes to obtain information about American males in the metro area who are between 20 and 25 years of age.He has a phone book that contains the land-line phone numbers of households in the metro area.The researcher uses a random number generator to select 50 households to call.Bearing in mind that he will be contacting only people who have a land line, is this a simple random sample?

• A) Yes
• B) No
• C) Depends on the information the researcher seeks from those surveyed
• D) Need more information to answer the question

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