Question

josh works for moo moo milkshakes. the company wants to know what milkshake flavor is the most popular. Today he surveyed every third female customer on their favorite milkshake flavor. Twenty four customers out of 80 total were surveyed and 7 customers prefer moochoo chocolate 4 customers prefer very strawberry and 13 customers prefer. What type of sampling is demonstrated in the situation above?

Answer 1

The type of sampling demonstrated above is systematic sampling.

Systematic sampling is a type of probability sampling method in which sample members from a larger population are selected according to a random starting point and a fixed periodic interval. This interval, called the sampling interval, is calculated by dividing the population size by the desired sample size.