Question

A student was given an assignment to determine the percentage of students that brought a bag lunch to school. The student chose 5 random classrooms and surveyed every student in those classrooms. Which type of sampling did the student use?
1)systematic
2)cluster
3)convenience
4)stratified

Answer 1

The type of sampling used by the student is **2) cluster sampling**. In this case, the student selected entire classrooms (clusters) and surveyed every student within those chosen classrooms, rather than sampling individual students randomly across the entire school.