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Sampling and Experiments · Superchallenge problem

A street has 100 houses numbered 1 to 100; the houses numbered 10,20,…,10010, 20, \ldots, 100 are corner houses. Plan A is a systematic sample of 20 houses: pick a random start from 1 to 5 and take every 5th house. Plan B is a simple random sample of 20 houses. Let CC be the number of corner houses in the sample. How many times larger is Var(C)\mathrm{Var}(C) under Plan A than under Plan B?