The school newspaper is planning an article on family-friendly places to stay ov

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The school newspaper is planning an article on family-friendly places to stay over spring break at a nearby beach town. The editors intend to call 4 randomly chosen hotels to ask about their hotel information. Help the editor to take the 4 samples. Below are four different ways of sampling. Identify the sampling scheme for each: a) Put all of the names of hotels in a hat and randomly draw 4 3. Divide all of the hotels into 10 groups and each group containing 2; randomly choose 2 groups b) Divide all of the hotels into 4 groups based on their popularity; randomly choose 1 from each group c) d) Sort the hotels alphabetically and choose every 5th hotel name until you got 4 hotels.

Explanation / Answer

a) This is an example of simple random sampling.

b) This is an example of cluster sampling

c) This is an example of stratified random sampling

d) This is an example of systematic sampling.

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