If a target population contains 10,600 elements and the researcher seeks a systematic random sample of 50, the sampling interval would be which of the following?
A) 116
B) 600
C) 212
D) 53
C
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To obtain the sampling interval, the size of the population is divided by the size of the desired sample.
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