Suppose you want to take a simple random sample of size 6 from the 20 participants in your Zumba exercise class. You label the students 01 to 20 in alphabetical order by last name. In the table of random digits, you read the entries

The six participants in your selected sample have labels
A) 45, 14, 93, 29, 92, 75.
B) 14, 06, 03, 02, 02, 09.
C) 14, 06, 03, 02, 09, 15.
D) 14, 06, 03, 19, 02, 09.

Question

Suppose you want to take a simple random sample of size 6 from the 20 participants in your Zumba exercise class. You label the students 01 to 20 in alphabetical order by last name. In the table of random digits, you read the entries

The six participants in your selected sample have labels

The six participants in your selected sample have labels
A) 45, 14, 93, 29, 92, 75. 
B) 14, 06, 03, 02, 02, 09. 
C) 14, 06, 03, 02, 09, 15. 
D) 14, 06, 03, 19, 02, 09.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The table of random digits is read from left to right, top to bottom, ignoring non-numeric characters. In this case, we would start with the first digit (1) and consider the next two digits (1 and e) which gives us label 11. We continue in this way until we have selected 6 labels. The resulting labels are 14, 6, 3, 2, 9, and 15. Since we are given the participants' labels in alphabetical order, we can see that this corresponds to the participants with last names B, F, C, A, G, and M, respectively. Therefore, the answer is choice C.

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