1.) Identify the sampling technique used: Simple Random Sample (SRS), Convenience, Systematic, Stratified, or Cluster. And please explain why.

a) A Los Angeles Times reporter gets a reaction to a breaking story by polling people as they pass the front of his office building.

b) Dr. Smith randomly selects 5 students in his class by assigning each a number and drawing five numbers from a hat.

c) The Orange County Commissioner of Jurors obtains a list of 55,014 car owners and constructs a group of possible jurors by selecting every 50th name on the list.

d) In a Harris poll of 1,011 adults, the interview subjects were selected by using a computer to randomly generate telephone numbers that were then called.

e) A Ford Motor Company researcher has partitioned all registered cars into categories of compact, midsized, and family size. He is surveying 75 car owners from each category.

f) Motivated by a student who died from binge drinking, Indiana State conducts a study of student drinking by randomly selecting 10 different classes and interviewing all of the students in each of those classes.

g) A statistics student obtains height/weight data by interviewing the members of his fraternity.

h) A UCLA researcher surveys all cardiac patients in each of 30 randomly selected hospitals.

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