A statistics teacher taught Introductory Statistics to a large lecture class of 200 students. She wanted to estimate the average on the first examination by selecting every eighth student's test score and finding the average of these scores. What type of sampling technique is being employed?
A) stratified sampling
B) random sampling
C) cluster sampling
D) systematic sampling

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The teacher is using systematic sampling since she is selecting every eighth student's test score.

A Statistics Teacher Taught Introductory Statistics to a Large Lecture