To Infer the Political Tendencies of the Students at Your

question 50

Multiple Choice

To infer the political tendencies of the students at your college/university, you sample 150 of them. Only one of the following is a simple random sample: You

• A)make sure that the proportion of minorities are the same in your sample as in the entire student body.
• B)call every fiftieth person in the student directory at 9 a.m. If the person does not answer the phone, you pick the next name listed, and so on.
• C)go to the main dining hall on campus and interview students randomly there.
• D)have your statistical package generate 150 random numbers in the range from 1 to the total number of students in your academic institution, and then choose the corresponding names in the student telephone directory.

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