Question 4.7

4.7 Sampling considerations. A statistics class has 10 graduate students and 40 undergraduate students. You want to randomly sample 10% of the students in the class. One graduate student and four undergraduate students are selected at random. Which of the following is not correct?

  1. (a) Because each student has a 10% chance of being selected, this is a simple random sample.

  2. (b) Because each sample includes exactly one graduate student and four undergraduate students, this is not a random sample.

  3. (c) It is possible to get a sample that contains only graduate students.

  4. (d) It is possible to get a sample that contains only undergraduate students.