Question

A townhouse community of 250 residents wants to determine if installing a new playground will be a good idea. Which group of residents would be the best sample to use for a survey that is designed to gather information about the opinions of all the townhouse community?

A. Randomly choosing 50 residents without children.

B. Randomly choosing 50 residents with children.

C. Randomly choosing 50 residents by drawing house numbers from all the house
numbers in the community.

D. Randomly choosing 50 residents by drawing house numbers from the odd numbered houses in the community.

Answer 1

Answer: C) Randomly choosing 50 residents by drawing house numbers from all the house numbers in the community

Step-by-step explanation: by randomly drawing house numbers you get a good sample size and diverse answers from a good representation of the community. The other examples could create a bias and create inaccurate results. :)