The professor of a business statistics class wanted to find out the mean amount of time per week her students spent studying for the class.She divided the fifty students on her roster 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 because every tenth student was selected after the first student was chosen randomly, not a cluster sample where entire groups or clusters are chosen at random.

The Professor of a Business Statistics Class Wanted to Find