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To assess the opinion of students at The Ohio State University about campus safety, a reporter for the student newspaper interviews 15 students she meets walking on the campus late at night who are willing to give their opinion. If the reporter instead decided to interview every fifth student that walks by, the method of sampling would be: a. simple random sampling. b. stratified random sampling. c. systematic sampling. d. a census.

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Answer:

(C) Systematic Sampling

Step-by-step explanation:

The reporter decides to interview every fifth student of Ohio State University that passes by. This is referred to as Systematic Sampling.

In Systematic Sampling, the members of the population are place in an ordered list and the members of the sample are taken at a stated interval. This interval is called the Sampling Interval.

Although the members of the sample are random, they are chosen at stated intervals.