Question

As part of a demographic study, a college administrator needed to survey a sample of students from the college. From each major offered at the college, the administrator randomly selected 5 percent of the students with that major to participate in the survey.

Required:
What is the best description of the type of sample selected by the administrator?

Answer 1

Option D is correct

Explanation:

The options for the question is

a)cluster sample

b)convenience sample

c)simple random sample

d)stratified random sample

e)systematic random sample

Solution

The sampling here comprises of students from all the major of college. Here the major can be considered as "strata" of the educational institute. Out of these, strata or majors five students are selected on random basis.

This is a form of stratified random sample

Hence, option D is correct