A teacher would like to take a sample of their students by giving a survey to ten students from every class he teaches. He puts a piece of paper with the students' names in paper bags, with one paper bag representing one class. He then draws ten slips of paper from each bag to determine who will take the survey. What type of sampling has he just conducted?
A) convenience sampling
B) cluster sampling
C) purposive sampling
D) simple random sampling

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The teacher has conducted cluster sampling because he has divided his population (the students in his classes) into distinct groups (the individual classes), and then randomly selected a sample from each of those groups.

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