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Question 2 Sampling [11 marks] Mahaveer a laptop wholesaler in Fiji orders different brands of 5000 laptops from Australia. The brands include 2200 HP, 2000
Question 2 Sampling [11 marks] Mahaveer a laptop wholesaler in Fiji orders different brands of 5000 laptops from Australia. The brands include 2200 HP, 2000 Samsung, and 800 Asus. It was the first time to order the Asus brand hence to check for the quality of Asus laptops, the supervisor prefers to inspect 50 Asus brand laptops. Page 5 of 13 a) What is the population of interest and state population size? [Hint: the supervisor is only interested to inspect Asus Brand and not all the PC that are being imported] (2 marks) b) What are the first three Asus laptops that will be selected for review using a simple random sampling procedure? Use the random Numbers Table provided below. Select the sample starting at the first digit of row 1 and working along the row. Show 3 steps procedure. (5 marks) Table 1: Random Numbers 78988002 4418 2747 8079 4993 6863 9542 0949 4531 6955 5826 9971 6233 7887 86403204 6906 5719 1116 5982 9532 2422 8333 8828 9002 2680 1928 8532 3600 44313453 3070 5239 3168 6490 0274 8443 9984 7503 0263 8086 3372 5454 1599 58684764 0158 1225 5558 7840 9394 8126 6974 1561 4765 0758 8717 6979 6306 85146959 7775 5844 5147 9173 4558 9107 0453 6119 2915 6586 9670 6580 5202 31371170 0345 6099 6352 6074 6142 1898 3657 1924 5625 3556 8178 0103 6107 34903349 7010 2045 6123 6271 8981 5274 2183 9820 0957 3988 6747 3508 8914 c) State two advantages of simple random sampling. (2 marks) d) State one way to minimize sampling error and one way to minimize non-sampling error. (2 marks)
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