To accumulate a sample of 500 telephone numbers, I decide to include every 20th telephone number in the local telephone directory beginning randomly with the letter "N.". I have engaged in

a. simple random sampling.
b. snowball sampling.
c. systematic sampling.
d. stratified sampling.
e. quota selection


Ans: c. systematic sampling.

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