Simulation. Random digits can be used to simulate the results of random sampling. Suppose that you are drawing simple random samples of size 25 from a large number of college students and that 20% of the students are unemployed during the summer. To simulate this SRS, let 25 consecutive digits in Table A stand for the 25 students in your sample. The digits 0 and 1 stand for unemployed students, and other digits stand for employed students. This is an accurate imitation of the SRS because 0 and 1 make up 20% of the 10 equally likely digits.

Simulate the results of 50 samples by counting the number of 0s and 1s in the first 25 entries in each of the 50 rows of Table A. Make a histogram like that in Figure 3.1 to display the results of your 50 samples. Is the truth about the population (20% unemployed, or 5 in a sample of 25) near the center of your graph? What are the smallest and largest counts of unemployed students that you obtained in your 50 samples? What percent of your samples had either 4, 5, or 6 unemployed?

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