A daycare center operator wanted to survey her parents to determine if they were interested in the center providing once-a-month Saturday night care for their children. Rather than survey all 254 parents, the operator took the list of parents' names and, starting with the third parent's name, surveyed every twelfth parent. What type of sampling did the daycare operator use?

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The daycare operator used systematic sampling because she followed a fixed interval (every twelfth parent) to select the sample from the list of parents' names.

A Daycare Center Operator Wanted to Survey Her Parents to Determine