In order to study the mean blood pressure of people in his town, Richard samples the population by dividing the residents by age and randomly selecting a proportionate number of residents from each age group. Which type of sampling is used?

Stratified sampling

Step-by-step explanation:

Samples may be classified as:

Convenient: Sample drawn from a conveniently available pool.

Random: Basically, put all the options into a hat and drawn some of them.

Systematic: Every kth element is taken. For example, you want to survey something on the street, you interview every 5th person, for example.

Cluster: Divides population into groups, called clusters, and each element in the cluster is surveyed.

Stratified: Also divides the population into groups. However, then only some elements of the group are surveyed.

In this question:

Population divided into groups. Some members of each group are surveyed. This is stratified sampling

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