The National Capital Commission recently did a quality check on the length of fence posts being installed in a new park area. To do this, each of the 400 posts in inventory was numbered. Twenty numbers from 1 and 400 were randomly selected. These 20 poles were the ones selected for the study. This type of sampling is called
A) simple random sampling
B) convenience sampling
C) cluster sampling
D) stratified sampling
E) non-statistical sampling

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This type of sampling involves randomly selecting individuals from the population with an equal probability of being chosen. In this case, the 20 posts were randomly selected from the total population of 400 posts, making it a simple random sample.

The National Capital Commission Recently Did a Quality Check on the Length