A tech company employs $120$ programmers: $80$ specialize in software and $40$ in hardware. The company wants to create a project team of $5$ programmers that represents both specialties. How should the company select a representative sample for the team?

• A. Randomly select $3$ software and $2$ hardware programmers using stratified sampling.
• B. Randomly select $5$ programmers from the entire pool.
• C. Randomly select $4$ software and $1$ hardware programmers.
• D. Select $2$ software and $3$ hardware programmers at random.

Answer: (A)