Systematic Sample Worksheet with Answer Key

What's on the worksheet

1. A historical society's register lists the 660 gravestones of an old cemetery in order of burial.
2. A herbarium wants to photograph about 22 of its 380 pressed-plant sheets, which sit in drawer order.
3. At a craft fair the 72 stalls are numbered 1 to 72 along the aisles.
4. A photo club's contest has 50 entries, numbered 1 to 50.
5. A carousel has 40 horses numbered 1 to 40 around its ring.
6. A machine fills printer ink cartridges with 8 nozzles that take turns:
7. For each plan, say whether the systematic sample is likely to behave like a simple random sample, do worse, or do better, and explain why.