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Chapter 14, Problem 34

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Exercises 33 and 34 refer to the following story: An orange grower wishes to compute the average yield from his orchard. The orchard contains three varieties of trees: 50% of his trees are of variety A, 25% of variety B, and 25% of variety C.(a) Suppose that in his survey, the grower found that eachtree of variety A averages 100 oranges, each tree of varietyB averages 50 oranges, and each tree of variety

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Exercises 33 and 34 refer to the following story: An orange grower wishes to compute the average yield from his orchard. The orchard contains three varieties of trees: 50% of his trees are of variety A, 25% of variety B, and 25% of variety C.(a) Suppose that in his survey, the grower found that eachtree of variety A averages 100 oranges, each tree of varietyB averages 50 oranges, and each tree of variety

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(a) In simple random sampling, any subset of the group is likely to be chosen as any other subset of equal size. If this situation were truly simple random sampling, then it would be possible to have a sample which includes two consecutive students in the list, like Andre Weil and Andrew Weil. These students might represent the  and  students in the list; since they are not 100 spaces apart, there is no chance to find both names in one sample.

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