Drug testing A baseball team regularly conducts random drug tests on its players. The $25$ members of the team are listed below.

(a) Explain how you would use the line of random digits below to select an SRS of 3 team members

for a random drug test.

(b) Use your method from (a) to choose the SRS. Show how you are using the digits in the table.

There are $25$members of the team that conduct random drug testing on a regular basis. $175178009462398456903316$

A simple random sample (SRS) of size $n$ is made up of $n$ people chosen from the population with an equal chance of being the sample that is actually chosen.

There are $25$ people in total. Their names have been provided in a list. Assign numbers to each of the $25$ members.

The given line is as follows: $1751,78009,46239,84569,03316$

Now follow these steps:

Choose your preferred number from the drop-down menu. If the number falls between $01$ and $35$ choose the same number. If not, disregard it and pick the other two numbers from the provided line. Rep this process till you have three distinct numbers.

The following method could be applied as: $$\begin{gathered} 17Select\#17 \\ 52Ignore \\ 17Repeatandignore \\ 80Ignore \\ 09Select\#09 \\ 46Ignore \\ 23Select\#23 \end{gathered}$$

Musselman, Smith, and Fuhrman are thus the members who have been chosen.