Kristen Ashford purchased the subscribers list for Wind Surfing magazine.She plans to survey a sample of the subscribers before using the list in her mail order business.The names are numbered consecutively from 1 to 5,000.Kristen chooses her sample by selecting four-digit numbers (1 to 5,000)from a random number table.Her sample is a ___.
A)simple random sample
B)stratified sample
C)systematic sample
D)convenience sample
E)cluster sample

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Kristen's method of randomly selecting four-digit numbers from a table ensures that each subscriber has an equal chance of being selected, making it a simple random sample.

Kristen Ashford Purchased the Subscribers List for Wind Surfing Magazine