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Simple Random Sample Which of the following is/are simple random samples?
a. As Lipitor pills are being manufactured, a quality control plan is to select every 500th pill and test it to confirm that it contains 80 mg of atorvastatin.
b. To test for a gender difference in the way that men and women make online purchases, Gallup surveys 500 randomly selected men and 500 randomly selected women.
c. A list of all 10,877 adults in Trinity County, California, is obtained; the list is numbered from 1 to 10,877; and then a computer is used to randomly generate 250 different numbers between 1 and 10,877. The sample consists of the adults corresponding to the selected numbers.
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