Dr. Abdul wants his research findings to be representative of the students at State U. He makes sure that every student has an equal chance of being a participant, thereby ensuring that he has engaged in____ sampling.?
a. ?biased
b. ?operational
c. ?random
d. ?representative
ANSWER:
c
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