Question

The coaches of a school football team want to know how many families from the school plan to attend this week's game. Each coach takes a different approach to obtain this information. Which sampling method would provide a good representation of the population? F Call all the parents of the football players to ask if their families will attend the game. G Stop every fifth car that enters the school parking lot one morning to ask if their families will attend the game. H Ask all the students in the last period PE class if their families will attend the game. J Choose every fourth student from an alphabetical list of the entire student body and ask if their families will attend the game

Answer 1

The option that takes samples putting the entire families of the students into account is the last option.

Option J is the correct answer