Question

Fortune publishes data on sales, profits, assets, stockholders' equity, market value, and earnings per share for the 500 largest U.S. industrial corporations.† Assume that you want to select a simple random sample of 10 corporations from the Fortune 500 list. Use the last three digits in column 10 of the table of random numbers, beginning with 945. Read down the column and identify the numbers of the 10 corporations that would be selected. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.) ___________

A student government organization is interested in estimating the proportion of students who favor a mandatory "pass-fail" grading policy for elective courses. A list of names and addresses of the 645 students enrolled during the current quarter is available from the registrar's office. Using three-digit random numbers in row 10 of the table of random numbers and moving across the row from left to right, identify the first 10 students who would be selected using simple random sampling. The three-digit random numbers begin with 816, 283, and 610. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.) _____________

The Wall Street Journal provides the net asset value, the year-to-date percent return, and the three-year percent return for 748 mutual funds.† Assume that a simple random sample of 12 of the 748 mutual funds will be selected for a follow-up study on the size and performance of mutual funds. Use the seventh column of the table of random numbers, beginning with 58683, to select the simple random sample of 12 mutual funds. Begin with mutual fund 683 and use the last three digits in each row of column 7 for your selection process. What are the numbers of the 12 mutual funds in the simple random sample? (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.) ______________

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