The National Capital Commission Recently Did a Quality Check on the Length

question 26

Multiple Choice

The National Capital Commission recently did a quality check on the length of fence posts being installed in a new park area. To do this, each of the 400 posts in inventory was numbered. Twenty numbers from 1 and 400 were randomly selected. These 20 poles were the ones selected for the study. This type of sampling is called

• A) simple random sampling
• B) convenience sampling
• C) cluster sampling
• D) stratified sampling
• E) non-statistical sampling

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Similarity

The degree to which two or more objects, ideas, or individuals share common characteristics or attributes.

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