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The president of the math club is conducting a survey to see where the twelfth-grade class wants to go on their field trip. Instead of asking the whole class, she surveys only the twelfth-grade members of the math club. She records their choices and plans to present the results to the school principal. What type of sampling did she use?

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The type of sampling that the teacher used is of the type: Option D: Convenience samplingWhat is simple random sampling?If the sampling is done from the population randomly, without any other rule, then such sampling is called simple random sampling. Items are selected in a fixed size, all randomly.What is stratified sampling?Sampling which is done by taking the main population divided in categories(called strata), then such sampling from stratas (sub-parts of the population) is called stratified sampling.What is systematic random sampling?In this type of sampling, starting of the sampling is done randomly, but then rest of the samples are collected by an order. Like for example, first point is selected randomly, then all points are selected that they are equidistant from each other in the population.What is convenience sampling?The word "convenience" summarizes this sampling. It is done in a way that those values from population are sampled which are in convenience with the researcher. Like if some random picking is to be done from beads spread on the ground, then the researcher picking those beads which are closer to him.So, the math teacher took the sample from a specific part of the whole twelfth class. That's a strata. But sampling was done "only" from 1 strata, which is useless as field trip's data should be taken from other parts of the population too where students might be interested to go for field trip. Thus, its a wrong method of sampling.That's more of like convenience sampling instead of stratified, where the teacher preferred convenience instead of proper sampling (as the sampling she did is not showing any proper ideology that she might've followed).Thus, the type of sampling that the teacher used is of the type: Option D: Convenience samplingLearn more about sampling techniques here: