Question

You want to know which store shoppers at the mall visit the most. You ask each 10th person as they enter the mall which store they will visit.

What kind of sampling technique is being used?

Group of answer choices

A.Voluntary Response Sample

B.Stratified Random Sample

C.Systematic Random Sample

D.Convenience Sample

E.Simple Random Sample

Answer 1

The correct option is;

C. Systemic Random Sample

Explanation:

From the question, whereby each 10th person entering the mall is selected to answer the statistic the question which is in essence ensuring that the population is ordered by filing into the mall, therefore, the kind of sampling is systemic sampling.

In systemic sampling the population is arranged in an order and from there a member is selected as the population is accessed as the start of the sample and every nth member after that is then selected to be part of the sample.

Answer 2

C.Systematic Random Sample

Explanation:

A random sample is the process of choosing samples randomly. In Systematic Random Sample, sampling is done according to a starting point at regular fixed periodic intervals. For example for a population of size x and a sample size of n is required, the sampling is done at every (x/n)th interval. This method of sampling is very simple to do and has a low probability of having errors.