To survey the opinions of football fans at Newcastle United's St.James' Park ground,you and your team of researchers plan to select every hundredth fan entering the stadium via the East Stand turnstiles at the next home match.Is this a simple random sample?

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This sampling method is not a simple random sample because it systematically selects every hundredth fan, which does not give every possible sample of the intended size an equal chance of being selected. Simple random sampling requires that each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected, and that every possible sample of the intended size has an equal chance of being chosen.

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