Pollsters Are Conducting a Survey to Predict Which Candidate Is

question 199

Multiple Choice

Pollsters are conducting a survey to predict which candidate is going to win the next mayoral election in a large city.They decide to poll 5 of the 40 subdivisions in the city.How accurate is their poll likely to be?

• A) quite accurate as they are polling different areas
• B) not accurate as the pollsters did not use random selection
• C) not accurate as they need to poll everyone in the city
• D) quite accurate as polling 5 subdivisions suggests they used random selection

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