Five hundred people attend a charity event, and each buys a raffle ticket. The 500 ticket stubs are put in a drum and thoroughly mixed. Next, 10 tickets are drawn. The 10 people whose tickets are drawn win a prize. This is which type of sample?

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Antwan Rubio

Mathematics

17 May, 15:38

Five hundred people attend a charity event, and each buys a raffle ticket. The 500 ticket stubs are put in a drum and thoroughly mixed. Next, 10 tickets are drawn. The 10 people whose tickets are drawn win a prize. This is which type of sample?

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Moochie · Answer 1

The sample is a Simple Random sample.

explanation:

A simple random sample is the process where there is equal chance of selecting each member of a population to form a sample. in the example stated in the question there are equal chances of selecting every ticket among the five hundred ticket of the participant so as to form another set of ten tickets that win a prize.