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1.2 Exercise 19

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use the following information to answer the next four exercises: A study was done to determine the age, number of times per week, and the duration (amount of time) of residents using a local park in San Antonio, Texas. The first house in the neighborhood around the park was selected randomly, and then the resident of every eighth house in the neighborhood around the park was interviewed.

The sampling method was

  1. a. simple random
  2. b. systematic
  3. c. stratified
  4. d. cluster

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 1.2 Data, Sampling, and Variation in Data and Sampling, exercise 19

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