The 10 most active stocks on the New York Stock Exchange on March 6, 2006, are shown

Question:

The 10 most active on the New York Stock Exchange on March 6, 2006, are shown here (The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2006).

Exchange authorities decided to investigate trading practices using a sample of three of these stocks.
a. Beginning with the first random digit in column 6 of Table 7.1, read down the column to select a simple random sample of three stocks for the exchange authorities.
b. Using the information in the third Note and Comment, determine how many different simple random samples of size 3 can be selected from the list of 10 stocks?

Stocks
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