Chapter 4, Problem 3CRE

a.

To determine

To explain: The way of using the line of random digit provided to choose a simple random sample of 3 members.

Explanation of Solution

Given:

There are 25 members. The list of their names has been provided.

Assign the numbers to all 25 members.

The provided line is:

1751, 78009, 46239, 84569, 03316.

Now follow the procedure:

Chose the number of your choice from the provided line. If the number coming to be between $01\text{ and 25}$ then, chose the identical number. If not then ignore it and chose the other 2-number in the provided line. Repeat this process till three 3 unique numbers are selected.

b.

To determine

To apply: The mentioned method in above part to select the simple random samples.

Explanation of Solution

The following method could be applied as:

  $\begin{array}{cc}\text{17}& \text{Select}\text{\#}\text{17}\\ 52& \text{Ignore}\\ 17& \text{Repeat and ignore}\\ 80& \text{Ignore}\\ 09& \text{Select}\text{\#}\text{09}\\ 46& \text{Ignore}\\ 23& \text{Select}\text{\#}\text{23}\end{array}$

Thus, it could be said that the selected members are Musselman, Smith and Fuhrman.