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Angela is studying the mean blood pressure of all students attending her college. She collects data from the 38 students in her statistics class. Which type of sampling is used?

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Answer:

Convenient Sampling

Explanation:

Samples may be classified as:

Convenient: Sample drawn from a conveniently available pool.

Random: Basically, put all the options into a hat and drawn some of them.

Systematic: Every kth element is taken. For example, you want to survey something on the street, you interview every 5th person, for example.

Cluster: Divides population into groups, called clusters, and each element in the cluster is surveyed.

Stratified: Also divides the population into groups. However, then only some elements of the group are surveyed.

In this question:

She collects the data from the students in her class, which is the conveniently available pool, so convenient sampling is used.

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