Nancy is going to conduct a survey regarding attitudes about a proposed freeway,

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Nancy is going to conduct a survey regarding attitudes about a proposed freeway, and she decides to sample 500 local residents. The freeway would include a tunnel through a mountain considered sacred by many Native American residents of the community. Native Americans, however, only make up 2 percent of the local population, so she is concerned they will be underrepresented in her sample. In this example, identify which type of random sampling would be most appropriate for Nancy to utilize, and then clearly explain the reason why.

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For very small populations , nancy needs almost the entire population in order to achieve accuracy.

Cluster sampling refers to a sampling method that has the following properties.

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