A community organization wants to determine area support for the construction of a new skate

park in the center of town. The organization decides to survey 500 people to see whether they are

willing to have their taxes increased for one year to fund the construction of the skate park.

What is the best way to randomly choose these 500 people?

Choose 100 taxpayers from 5 different age groups in town.

Survey the first 500 people who visit the existing skate park.

Select the first 500 taxpayers listed at the town hall.

Assign each taxpayer in town a number and then randomly select 500 of these

numbers

Question

Braylon Conley

Mathematics

26 February, 10:50

A community organization wants to determine area support for the construction of a new skate

park in the center of town. The organization decides to survey 500 people to see whether they are

willing to have their taxes increased for one year to fund the construction of the skate park.

What is the best way to randomly choose these 500 people?

Choose 100 taxpayers from 5 different age groups in town.

Survey the first 500 people who visit the existing skate park.

Select the first 500 taxpayers listed at the town hall.

Assign each taxpayer in town a number and then randomly select 500 of these

numbers

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Answers (2)

Know the Answer?

Ciara · Answer 1

I think the answer is D) Assign each taxpayer in town a number and then randomly select 500 of these numbers.

Step-by-step explanation:

the second option is a little bias because if you survey only people who go to the skate park then you'll get answers like of course because they like and enjoy going to the skate park, if you want a more varied answers then d would be correct because it has more random answers.

Declan Romero · Answer 2

Assign each taxpayer in town a number and then randomly select 500 of these numbers.

Step-by-step explanation:

The best way to randomly choose these 500 people is to assign each taxpayer in town a number and then randomly select 500 of these numbers.

A random sample simply refers to a subset of a population where each participant of the subset has an equal chance of being chosen.

Assigning each taxpayer in town a number and then randomly select 500 of these numbers will ensure there is an equal probability of each taxpayer being chosen