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Statistics Online Practice
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Question
Hospital management wants to determine the number of employees who ride the free shuttle bus to work. Which of the following would be the best method to obtain a random sample of the employees to be surveyed?(1 point)
Responses

selecting every tenth employee that enters the building
selecting every tenth employee that enters the building

selecting five employees from each department who volunteer to participate
selecting five employees from each department who volunteer to participate

selecting all the hospital’s nurses
selecting all the hospital’s nurses

selecting all employees who do not own a car

Answer 1

To obtain a random sample of employees to be surveyed about their use of the free shuttle bus to work, the best method among the provided options is:

selecting every tenth employee that enters the building

This method ensures that every employee has an equal chance of being selected, making it a more random sampling approach compared to the other options, which introduce bias by only selecting volunteers, only nursing staff, or those without cars.