A study attempted to estimate the proportion of Florida residents who were willing to spend more tax dollars on protecting the beaches from environmental disasters.Twenty-five hundred Florida residents were surveyed.What type of data collection procedure was most likely used to collect the data for this study?
A)a designed experiment
B)a published source
C)a random sample
D)observational data

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A random sample was most likely used to collect the data, as a specific group of Florida residents was not targeted for the survey and the sample was likely chosen randomly to reduce bias.

A Study Attempted to Estimate the Proportion of Florida Residents