Question

We wish to choose a simple random sample of size three from the following employees of a small company.

1. Bechhofer	4. Kesten	7. Taylor
2. Brown	5. Kiefer	8. Wald
3. Ito	6. Spitzer	9. Weiss

To do this, we will use the numerical labels attached to the names above.  We will also use the following list of random digits, reading the list from left to right, starting at the beginning of the list.

11793 20495 05907 11384 44982 20751 27498 12009 45287 71753 98236 66419

The simple random sample is:

	a.	117
	b.	Kesten, Kiefer, Taylor
	c.	Bechhofer, Taylor, Weiss
	d.	Taylor, Weiss, Ito
	e.	Bechhofer, Bechhofer again, and Taylor

Answer 1

Starting from left to right, first random digit is 11793 and we have to consider only a 3 digit number

So, first digit would be 1, i.e. Bechhofer

second digit is again 1, so we will avoid 1

now, we get 7 for second digit, i.e. Taylor

and for third digit, we get 9, i.e. Weiss

Hence, required sample is Bechhofer, Taylor and Weiss

option C is correct