Example 1

Mr. DiCenso wants to establish baseline measures for the 21 students in his psychology class on a memory test, but he doesn’t have time to test all students. How could Mr. DiCenso use a standard deck of 52 cards to select a simple random sample of 10 students? The students in Mr. DiCenso’s class are listed below. Tim, Alex, Eliza, Brion, Andy, Morgan, Victoria, Michael, Ian, Nick, Stella, Dominic, Quinn, Claire, DeSean, Gigi, Lara, Rafiq, Jose, Noemi, Gillian
  1. Assign a value to each student.
  2. Randomly select cards.
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