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At a party there are 30 students over the age of 21 and 15 under the age of 21. You select a representative sample of 5to interview about attitude towards alcohol. Explain your method and select ypur sample

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Answer:

Stratified sampling

Explanation:

Given


30 \to 21\ and\ above


15 \to Under\ 21

Required

The type of sampling method

From the question, we understand that, the sample are divided into two categories. This means that each person in each person do not have the same probability of being selected.

Such method is a stratified sampling

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