An Environmental Action Group Is Interested in How Many People

Multiple Choice

An environmental action group is interested in how many people will participate in a recycling program in a particular town. They obtain the entire list of households in the town, and they assign each household a number from 1 to 3000 (the number of households in the town) . They then use a computer to generate a list of 500 random numbers ranging from 1 to 3000. Using the list of random numbers, they draw a sample of 500 people to question about their use of the recycling program. What sampling method did this group use?

A) Quota sample
B) Simple random
C) Systematic
D) Stratified random