A research manager decides to pick households for interviews by selecting street intersections at random,and then using a given route for the interviewers to follow-such as every fifth house on the right side of the road until the end of the street and then turn east and interview every fifth house on the left.What is this?
A) a sampling error
B) a convenience sample
C) a nonprobability sample
D) a probability sample

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This is a probability sample because every household has a known and non-zero chance of being selected due to the systematic method of selection based on random starting points and a fixed interval for selection (every fifth house).

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