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Narrative: Apartment complex
Suppose you want to survey the opinions of the residents of an apartment complex.The complex contains 100 buildings, each with 8 units per building, for a total of 800 units.You decide to sample 160 of the units.
-{Apartment complex narrative} Suppose you start at a random starting point, and select every 5th unit to be in your sample, until you sample 160 units.What sampling method did you use?
A)A systematic sample.
B)A stratified sample.
C)A cluster sample.
D)A simple random sample

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The approach of selecting every 5th unit is a systematic sampling method. This method involves selecting a starting point at random and then choosing every n-th unit after that. In this case, n=5. Therefore, the correct answer is A) A systematic sample.

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