Deanna Has Been Hired to Visit the Local Shopping Mall

Multiple Choice

Deanna has been hired to visit the local shopping mall to conduct a survey about the upcoming political election. She needs to select respondents at the mall and ask them questions about their voting tendencies. Voting records show that 50% of the local population are registered as Republicans, 35% are registered as Democrats, and the remaining as Independents. Deanna wants to be sure that her final sample has a similar proportion of voters. Which of the following sampling techniques best describes Deanna's method?

A) convenience
B) simple random
C) stratified
D) cluster