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Sampling with Replacement The Orangetown Medical Research Center randomly selects 100 births in the United States each day, and the proportion of hoys is recorded for each sample.
a. Do you think the births are randomly selected with replacement or without replacement?
b. Give two reasons why statistical methods tend to be based on the assumption that sampling is conducted with replacement, instead of without replacement.
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