The lecturer of a business statistics class wanted to find out the average amount of time per week her students spent studying for the class.She divided the fifty students on her class list into ten groups starting from the first student on the roster.The first student was randomly selected from the first group.Then every tenth student was selected from the remaining students.This is an example of a cluster sample.

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This is an example of a systematic sample, not a cluster sample. In a systematic sample, every nth member of the population is selected after a random starting point.

The Lecturer of a Business Statistics Class Wanted to Find