The Occupational Safety Board has decided to do a study of work-related accidents within Hong

Kong, to examine some of the variables involved in the accidents; e.g., the type of job, the cause

of the accident, the extent of the injury, the time of day, and whether the employer was negligent

. It has been decided that 250 of the 2,500 work-related accidents reported last year will

be sampled. The accident reports are filed by date in a filing cabinet. A department employee

has proposed that the study should use a systematic sampling technique and select every tenth

report in the file for the sample. Would the proposed plan of systematic sampling be appropriate

here? Explain.