Question 3.111

3.111 How much do students earn?

A university’s financial aid office wants to know how much it can expect students to earn from summer employment. This information will be used to set the level of financial aid. The population contains 3478 students who have completed at least one year of study but have not yet graduated. The university will send a questionnaire to an SRS of 100 of these students, drawn from an alphabetized list.

  1. Describe how you will label the students in order to select the sample.
  2. Use Table B, beginning at line 120, to select the first eight students in the sample.

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(a) Label the students 0001, 0002, …, 3478. (b) The first 8 students are 0426, 1937, 0771, 3470, 2245, 1025, 1387, 0529.