A chocolate factory produces 80 000 blocks of chocolate per day

MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · A Level · Mathematics · Statistical sampling · Statistical sampling

Problem

A chocolate factory produces 80 000 blocks of chocolate per day. Today, the factory operator wants to sample 2% of the blocks for quality testing. He uses a systematic sample, starting from the 17th block. (1) List the first five blocks to be sampled. (2) Find the total size of the sample.

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