Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: A study was done to determine the age, number of times per week, and the duration (amount of time) of resident use of a local park in San Jose. The first house in the neighborhood around the park was selected randomly and then every 8th house in the neighborhood around the park was interviewed.
The instructor takes her sample by gathering data on five randomly selected students from each Lake Tahoe Community College math class. The type of sampling she used is which of the following?
- cluster sampling
- stratified sampling
- simple random sampling
- convenience sampling
OpenStax Statistics, 1.2 Data, Sampling, and Variation in Data and Sampling, exercise 71