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Parking on campus The director of student life at a university wants to estimate the proportion of undergraduate students who regularly park a car on campus. Describe how to select a stratified random sample of approximately 100students. Explain your choice of strata and why stratified random sampling might be preferred in this context.

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Strata is Gender (male/ female) and SRS is preferred in this context because the proportion of undergraduates parking the car differs for males and females.

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We need to find the strata and reason for the SRS preference in this context.

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Simple random samples are obtained from independent subgroups using stratified random sampling (stratum).

Because the proportion of undergraduate students who park their automobiles on campus on a regular basis may differ between males and girls, using gender as the stratum might be informative. Females, for example, maybe more likely than males to park a car on campus because more females in the school possess a car.

We would need to pick roughly 50male undergraduate students and approximately 50female undergraduate students for a stratified random sample of approximately 100students.

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