Dr. Monroe is interested in surveying college students at her university who are first generation college students. She contacts the registrar's office and finds out that there are 3500 first generation college students total
She wants to include 350 of those students in her sample. She then divided the population by the sample size and gets k = 10 . She then picks a random number between 1 and 10 which is 8 . This determines that every 8th person in the population will be included in the sample. What type of sampling method is this?
a. cluster sampling.
b. stratified sampling
c. random sampling
d. systematic sampling
D
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