Script to take every 5th file from a folder and copy it to another folder

How can I tell applescript to take every 5th file of a folder of say 2000 files and copy them to another location? I want to copy the 5th, 10, 15th, 20th files and so on of 2000 files so I will have only 400 files.
I guess I want to make a list of all the files and then coerce that to the first and then increments of five but how do I do that?
Thanks.
Pedro

Hi Pedro,
The following script should do what you are asking for:
*set theSourceFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the source folder."*
*set theTargetFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the target folder."*
*tell application "Finder"*
*set theFiles to files of theSourceFolder*
*repeat with k from 5 to (count theFiles) by 5*
*move item k of theFiles to folder theTargetFolder*
*end repeat*
*end tell*
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