Chapter 5.1, Problem 5.11E

To determine

To use the table of random digits to select an SRS of $3$ of the following $25$ members of an athletics team for a drug test.

Answer to Problem 5.11E

Moser, Pavnica and Chen.

Explanation of Solution

Let Agarwalbe $1$ , Andrews $2$ , Baer $3$ , …., Wilson $25$ .

The first four numbers in line $117$ of table B are:

  $38167,98532,62183,70632$

Take a look at the consecutive pair of digits, if it is more than $25$ we ignore the pair:

  $\begin{array}{l}38\text{ Ignore}\\ \text{16 Ok}\\ \text{79 Ignore}\\ \text{85 Ignore}\\ \text{32 Ignore}\\ \text{62 Ignore}\\ \text{18 Ok}\\ \text{37 Ignore}\\ \text{06 Ok}\end{array}$

Thus, we obtain $16,18\text{ and }6$ . The corresponding members are then Moser, Pavnica and Chen.