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The city council of a large city needs to know whether its residents will support the building of three new schools. The council decides to conduct a survey of a sample of the city's residents. Which procedure would be most appropriate for obtaining a sample of the city's residents?
a. Survey a random sample of teachers who live in the city.
b. Survey 100 individuals who are randomly selected from a list of all people living in the state in which the city in question is located.
c. Survey a random sample of persons within each neighborhood of the city.
d. Survey every tenth person who enters City Hall on a randomly selected day.
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