A Pollster Wants to Ask a Sample of Undergraduates at State

question 13

Multiple Choice

A pollster wants to ask a sample of undergraduates at State Tech how they feel about a proposal to build a new dorm in the place of the school's largest commuter parking lot. Opinions may differ depending on whether the student is a commuter or resident, so the pollster takes separate SRSs of commuters and resident students and combines them to form his sample. He used a:

• A) simple random sampling.
• B) cluster sampling.
• C) stratified random sampling.
• D) sampling in stages.

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