Question

The kitchen supervisor at Cooper High School wanted to make sure that students were enjoying the lunches being provided. She decidedto conduct a survey. At the beginningof a certain lunch period, she gavethe first person who got in line asurvey and asked him or her to fill itout and return it. She then gave outsurveys to every 10th student whofollowed. This is an example of a:Answer Choices:simple random sample.systematic sample.cluster sample.stratified random sample.

Answer 1

SOLUTION:

Case: Sampling techniques

Method:

At the beginning of a certain lunch period, she gave the first person who got in line a survey and asked him or her to fill it out and return it. She then gave out surveys to every 10th student who followed.

A similar example is shown in the image below.

We see from the above image that there are equal steps between students selected for the survey.

Final answer:

Systematic sample