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The mayor of a large U.S. city is interested in addressing complaints from many property owners regarding recent property assessments. Many people feel that they are being overtaxed and that their assessments are too high.
 
  To study this issue, the mayor plans to hire consultants to randomly select homes in the city and have these homes independently assessed for value. However, she is concerned that the cost of sampling will be very high since the city is spread out over a wide geographical area. To potentially reduce the cost of sampling, which of the following statistical sampling techniques should be applied?A) Cluster sampling
  B) Ratio sampling
  C) Simple random sampling
  D) Stratified random sampling

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Briefly describe the characteristics of linear optimization models.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

A linear optimization model has two basic properties.
First, the objective function and all constraints are linear functions of the decision variables.
The second property is that all variables are continuous, meaning that they may assume any real value (typically, nonnegative).



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