Suppose you were conducting a survey to try to determine what portion of voters in your small town support a particular candidate for mayor. Consider each of the following methods for sampling the voting population of your town. State whether each is likely to produce a representative sample and explain your reasoning.
a. Ask every voter on your block.
b. Randomly pick one house from each block in the neighborhood and survey the homeowner.
c. Survey each person at the I-Jump Pancake Restaurant after church on Sunday morning.
d. Ask people who are leaving the twice-yearly town hall meeting.
e. Visit every tenth person on the county's voter registration list.