A surveyor decides to sample families randomly from an area in order to get info

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A surveyor decides to sample families randomly from an area in order to get information about the residents' opinion toward a new proposal to build an apartment. There are 300 households in this area, and the surveyor has randomly assigned each of the household a number from 1 to 300. The surveyor wishes to randomly select 10 houses using the random digit number table and the first random digits he came up with are as follow: 104823, 021598, 417281, 123596, 817435, 324807, 146079, 197635, 324207, 135079 Assuming the above assumptions do hold, what are the numbers corresponding to the first 5 households in the sample that would be selected from the area? A. 104, 021, 281, 123, 146 B. 021, 215, 281, 123, 197 C. 104, 281, 123, 207, 079 D. 172, 207, 123, 079, 146

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Answer of this question is option A) because consecutively first 3 digits are selected & if number formed by that three digits lies between 1 & 300 (including 1& 300) , then it is selected .It is continued till we get 5 such numbers indicating areas.

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