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Olivia wants to learn a foreign language. To get an idea of how satisfied other students were after taking a foreign language course, she decides to take a random sample of 20 students.
-If Olivia randomly selects 5 students from French, 5 from German, 5 from Spanish, and 5 from Chinese, the sampling method is a
A) simple random sample.
B) stratified random sample.
C) cluster sample.
D) systematic sample.

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 Olivia wants to learn a foreign language. To get an idea of how satisfied other students were after taking a foreign language course, she decides to take a random sample of 20 students.
-If Olivia randomly selects 5 students from French, 5 from German, 5 from Spanish, and 5 from Chinese, the sampling method is a
A) simple random sample.
B) stratified random sample.
C) cluster sample.
D) systematic sample.

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Olivia's method is a stratified random sample because she divides the population into groups (strata) based on the language and then takes a random sample from each group.

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