Olive wants to acquire a random sample of people who attend a new play on opening night. Which of the following procedures would give her a random sample?
A) She rolls a dice and a "3" turns up. She approaches the third person in line and every 10th person thereafter.
B) Olive goes down the line and arbitrarily picks people by whim.
C) She interviews everyone who makes eye contact with her.
D) Olive lets her boyfriend choose.

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Option A describes a systematic sampling method starting with a random starting point, which is a form of obtaining a random sample.

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