Solve the problem.The government of a town needs to determine if the city's residents will support the construction of a new town hall. The government decides to conduct a survey of a sample of the city's residents. Which one of the following procedures would be most appropriate for obtaining a sample of the town's residents?

A. Survey a random sample of employees at the old city hall.
B. Survey every 4th person who walks into city hall on a given day.
C. Survey the first 300 people listed in the town's telephone directory.
D. Survey a random sample of persons within each geographic region of the city.


Answer: D

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