Among a Dozen Eggs, Three Are Rotten $3,4 , \ldots , 11$

question 11

Multiple Choice

Among a dozen eggs, three are rotten. A cookie recipe calls for two eggs; they'll be selected randomly from that dozen. Which plan could be used to simulate the number of rotten eggs that might be chosen?
I. Let 0,1 , and 2 represent the rotten eggs, and $3,4 , \ldots , 11$ the good eggs. Generate two random numbers $0 - 11$ , ignoring repeats.
II. Randomly generate a 0,1 , or 2 to represent the number of rotten eggs you get.
III. Since $25 \%$ of the eggs are rotten, let $0 =$ rotten and $1,2,3 =$ good. Generate two random numbers $0 - 3$ and see how may 0 's you get.

• A) I only
• B) II only
• C) III only
• D) I and III
• E) I, II, and III

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Subsidy

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Deadweight Loss

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Marginal Cost

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