A gourmet cook likes wild mushrooms and has identified six places on his property where they grow during mushroom season. Once the mushrooms have been picked, new mushrooms will eventually appear, depending on the weather. Thus, he checks his patches daily. His patch-checking behavior is on a _______ schedule.

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The gourmet cook checks his mushroom patches on a variable interval schedule because the appearance of new mushrooms depends on the unpredictable factor of weather, making the intervals at which the mushrooms appear variable and not fixed.

A Gourmet Cook Likes Wild Mushrooms and Has Identified Six