The Future Government Club wants to sponsor a panel discussion on the upcoming national election. The club wants four of its members to lead the panel discussion. Obtain a simple random sample of size 4 from the accompanying table. Write a short description of the process you used to generate your sample. Write a short description of the process you used to generate your sample with StatCrunch and the seed 12644 . Copy and paste the accompanying data into the "var1" cell of a new StatCrunch session. Select Data then Simulate > club membership list. Fill out Rows: 10, Columns: 1, Minimum: 1 and Maximum: Select the radio button for Choose names from the resulting sample by matching the first names.

Below is one acceptable answer that explains both the “manual‐simulated” process and the simulation using StatCrunch with seed 12644. ────────────────────────────── Example Answer: Step 1. Simple Random Sample by Hand I began by “numbering” our club membership list from 1 to 10 (one number for each club member listed in the accompanying table). To select four panelists, I used a simple random sampling procedure. This involved using a random number generator (or drawing numbers from a hat) to pick 4 distinct numbers between 1 and 10 without replacement. The club members whose numbers correspond to the drawn numbers became our panel discussion leaders. For example, if the drawn numbers were 2, 5, 7, and 9, then the members in positions 2, 5, 7, and 9 in the table would be asked to lead the panel. Step 2. Generating a Simple Random Sample using StatCrunch 1. First, I copied and pasted the accompanying club membership data into the “var1” cell in a new StatCrunch session. 2. Then I went to the menu Data > Simulate > club membership list. In the dialog box that appeared, I set the following: • Rows: 10 (since there are 10 club members) • Columns: 1 • Minimum: 1 • Maximum: 10 3. To ensure that the process was reproducible, I entered the seed value 12644. 4. Once I ran the simulation, StatCrunch produced a set of 10 random values. I then selected the first 4 numbers (or used any method from the output—so long as they were chosen according to the simulation’s order) to generate our sample. 5. Finally, I matched the resulting sample numbers to the first names from the club membership list to obtain the final list of four panel discussion leaders. This two‐part procedure shows how I first understood the concept of simple random sampling and then generated the sample using StatCrunch with the specified seed, ensuring that anyone could reproduce this selection process if needed. ────────────────────────────── Any answer that clearly explains these two methods—the manual assignment of numbers and subsequent use of StatCrunch with seed 12644 to generate the corresponding four-member sample—is acceptable for this assignment.