Good CDs Brian Is a Systems Manager for a Large

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Essay

Good CDs Brian is a systems manager for a large company. In his work, he has found that about 5% of all CDs he orders are bad. He needs to give one of the executives at his company five good CDs. Conduct a simulation to estimate how many CDs Brian will have to check to get five good CDs for the executive.
a. Describe how you will use a random number table to conduct this simulation.
b. Show three trials by clearly labeling the random number table given below. Specify the outcome for each trial.

$\begin{array}{|c|c|c|}\hline \text {Trial }& \text { Simulation} & \text { Outcome} \\\hline \# 1 & 03242\quad50692\quad18977\quad28370 & \\\hline \# 2 & 78695\quad21402\quad85525\quad81183 & \\\hline \# 3 & 60809\quad06765\quad39996\quad81915 & \\\hline\end{array}$

c. State your conclusion.

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