The PAC-10 Conference consists of ten schools. Use systematic sampling selecting every second number from the population to identify five schools out of the ten as a sample. The following random numbers table has already been used to randomly select the first school, USC. What are the other four schools in the sample?
A) Washington, Washington State, Arizona, Arizona State
B) Arizona, California, Oregon State, UCLA
C) Washington State, Arizona State, Oregon, Stanford
D) USC, USC, California, Arizona State

Question

The PAC-10 Conference consists of ten schools.  Use systematic sampling selecting every second number from the population to identify five schools out of the ten as a sample. The following random numbers table has already been used to randomly select the first school, USC. What are the other four schools in the sample? 
A) Washington, Washington State, Arizona, Arizona State 
B) Arizona, California, Oregon State, UCLA 
C) Washington State, Arizona State, Oregon, Stanford 
D) USC, USC, California, Arizona State

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Starting with USC, the next school to be included in the sample would be Washington State (every second school from USC). Continuing in this pattern, the other schools in the sample would be Arizona State, Oregon, and Stanford. Therefore, the correct answer is choice C.

The PAC-10 Conference Consists of Ten Schools