As part of a statistics project, a 6th grade teacher brings to class a container with 300 red marbles and 500 white marbles which are thoroughly mixed. To figure out how many marbles in the container are red without actually counting them all, a student randomly draws 40 marbles from the container. Of the 40 marbles drawn, 16 are red.The sampling proportion is

A. 37%.
B. 5%.
C. %
D. %.
E. none of these


Answer: B

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