Pinky Bauer, Chief Financial Officer of Harrison Haulers, Inc., suspects irregularities in the payroll system, and orders an inspection of "every tenth payroll voucher issued since January 1, 2013." Pinky is ordering a __________________.
A)statistic from the payroll vouchers
B)census of the payroll vouchers
C)sample of the payroll vouchers
D)sorting of the payroll vouchers
E)parameter of the payroll vouchers

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Pinky is ordering a sample of the payroll vouchers because selecting "every tenth payroll voucher" is a method of sampling, not examining the entire population (census) or organizing (sorting) the vouchers.