Question

At your summer job with a research company, you must get a random sample of people from your town to answer a question about spending habits. Which of the following methods is most likely to be random?

A: You survey customers at the local shopping mall.

B:You survey people chosen randomly from the local phone book.

C:You survey several of your friends.

D:You survey customers at a popular restaurant.

Answer 1

which one did you get

Answer 2

i think its D but not sure

Answer 3

is that sample representative of the population as a whole?

Answer 4

its B

Answer 5

better, surveying people at a restaurant leaves out the people that don't go out to eat

Answer 6

but looking up people in a phone book is more inclusive (assuming everyone has a listed number)

Answer 7

okay thx

Answer 8

np