Question 7.45

15. Your dog just had a litter of 5 male puppies. Picking out good names for dogs can be difficult. On the Internet, you found a list of the top 20 names for male puppies, which are shown below. You decide to randomly select 5 names from the list as names for the puppies. What names did you select? Explain how you randomly selected these names. [Use Excel or a graphing calculator and one of the techniques discussed in Spotlight 7.1 (page 300) for this exercise.]

Max Buddy Charlie Rocky
Cooper Duke Bear Jack
Bently Toby Zeus Tucker
Diesel Jake Milo Teddy
Jax Buster Bandit Harley

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Sample response for TI-84: First, assign labels to the names. The first column on names (Max through Cooper) are assigned labels 1–5; the second column, labels 6–10; the third column, labels 11–15; the fourth column, labels 16–20. Then use a TI-84 calculator and the randIntNoRep command to generate five randomly chosen numbers from the integers 1 to 20 with no repeats. The randomly chosen labels were 8, 7, 16, 15, 17. So, the puppies’ names will be Jack, Bear, Teddy, Milo, and Jax.