A university wants to determine what fraction of its undergraduate student body support a new $25 annual

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A university wants to determine what fraction of its undergraduate student body support a new $25 annual fee to improve the student union. For each proposed method below, indicate whether the method is reasonable or not.

(a) Survey a simple random sample of 500 students.

(b) Stratify students by their field of study, then sample 10% of students from each stratum.

(c) Cluster students by their ages (e.g. 18 years old in one cluster, 19 years old in one cluster, etc.), then randomly sample three clusters and survey all students in those clusters.

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OpenIntro Statistics

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Authors: David Diez, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Christopher Barr

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