A neighborhood organization wants to know what percent of households want to have a community vegetable garden. The organization plans to survey a random sample of 25 households.

What is the best way to randomly choose these 25 households?

a) Ask the households nearest to the proposed site of the vegetable garden.

b) Count every 5th house on the longest street in the neighborhood.

c) Randomly assign each household a number and use a random number generator to generate 25 numbers.

d) Ask for volunteers in the neighborhood to choose households.

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Madden

4 May, 12:44

A neighborhood organization wants to know what percent of households want to have a community vegetable garden. The organization plans to survey a random sample of 25 households.

What is the best way to randomly choose these 25 households?

a) Ask the households nearest to the proposed site of the vegetable garden.

b) Count every 5th house on the longest street in the neighborhood.

c) Randomly assign each household a number and use a random number generator to generate 25 numbers.

d) Ask for volunteers in the neighborhood to choose households.

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Anika Bradley · Answer 1

Answer: Randomly assign each household a number and use a random number generator to generate 25 numbers.

Step-by-step explanation:

Random sampling is a genuine form of probability sampling. Each member of the population in neighborhood has an equal and known chance to have a community vegetable garden. When there are very large number of people, it is impossible or very difficult to spot every member's choice of the population, so the bundle of available subjects may becomes biased.

So, by assigning each household randomly a number and use a random number generator to generate 25 members.