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For the following situation determine what type of sampling was used. A research company believes teens today are getting less than the recommended hours of sleep. The company takes a list of 2000 teen volunteers and assigns each volunteer a number. A random number generator is used to select 350 individuals to take part in a sleep survey.

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Answer: Simple random sampling.

Explanation:

A simple random sample is basically a subset (with size n) from the entire population, where the chance of getting selected for each element is equal.

Given :A research company believes teens today are getting less than the recommended hours of sleep. The company takes a list of 2000 teen volunteers and assigns each volunteer a number. A

A random number generator is used to select 350 individuals to take part in a sleep survey.

It is a simple random sampling because the researcher selected participants randomly such that the chance to get selected for each of them remains same.

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