The 2012 American League consists of 15 baseball teams. Suppose a sample of 5 te

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The 2012 American League consists of 15 baseball teams. Suppose a sample of 5 teams is to be selected to conduct player interviews. The following table lists the 15 teams and the random numbers assigned by Excel’s RAND function. Use these random numbers to select a sample of size 5. Click on the webfile logo to reference the data.

Team Number Team Number New York 0.178624 Boston 0.290197 Baltimore 0.578370 Tampa Bay 0.867778 Toronto 0.965807 Minnesota 0.811810 Chicago 0.562178 Cleveland 0.960271 Detroit 0.253574 Kansas City 0.326836 Oakland 0.288287 Los Angeles 0.895267 Texas 0.500879 Seattle 0.839071 Houston 0.713682

Explanation / Answer

First we arrange these teams with increasing order of random numbers.

Then, we select here first 5 teams .

These teams are New York,Detroit,Oakland,Boston,Kansas City.

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