To gather data on a 1200-acre pine forest in Louisiana, the U. S. Forest Service laid a grid of 1410 equally spaced circular plots over a map of the forest. A ground survey visited a sample of 10% of the plots. Required:
a. Explain how you would use a random number generator to choose an SRS of 141 plots.
b. Use your method from part (a) to choose the first 3 plots.

9.4.34  question   to estimate the height of a stone  figure, an observer holds a small square up to her eyes and walks backward from the figure. she stops when the bottom of the figure aligns with the bottom edge of the  square, and when the top of the figure aligns with the top edge of the square. her eye level is 1.811.81 m from the ground. she is 3.703.70 m from the figure. what is the height of the figure to the nearest hundredth of a  meter?

For a science project, a high school research team conducted a survey of local air temperatures. based on the results of the survey, the found that the average temperatures were around 10 degrees higher than expected. this result was wrong. the trouble with the survey was that most of the locations were exposed to direct sunlight and located over asphalt or sand, which resulted in higher temperatures than normal. this is a classic example of an error in which phase of inferential statistics?

Randy and trey take turns cleaning offices on the weekends. it takes randy at most 4 hours to clean the offices. it takes trey at most 6 hours to clean the offices. what is the greatest amount of time it would take them to clean the offices together? 2.4 hours 2.5 hours