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Other Sampling Methods — Quiz

Question 7 • Statistics and Probability

Executives for a grocery store chain want to survey their employees about a new policy regarding break times. To get a representative sample of 40 employees, they randomly select 10 people from each of the different job titles at the store (cashier, bagger, stocker, and manager). Which sampling method was used?

Answer
A
simple random sampling
B
systematic random sampling
C
cluster sampling
D
stratified random sampling

Explanation

The employees were divided into groups based on job title, and then 10 people were randomly selected from each group. Sampling randomly from every subgroup is stratified random sampling. The correct choice is B, stratified random sampling.

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