Question

56 volunteers: 28 in group a: carrot alpha followed by carrot beta 28 in group b: carrot beta followed by carrot alpha the farmer, being a good statistician, decides he needs to randomize the groups to help reduce bias. he assigns a number between 1 and 56 to each students name. then he breaks out the random number app on his phone and generates the following sets of numbers. 76 12 44 79 71 23 00 97 59 53 55 55 40 84 44 06 78 39 89 37 33 30 43 26 52 92 77 92 83 46 73 12 29 78 90 74 08 76 63 49 84 48 31 77 89 73 39 89 49 89 92 44 10 26 19 07 22 11 24 54 4. 12 shows up again in the third row. what do you do with this?

Explanation:

Step1: Understand random - number assignment

When using random numbers to assign subjects to groups, repeated numbers within the valid range (1 - 56 in this case) are not allowed as each volunteer should have a unique assignment number.

Step2: Deal with the repeated number

Since 12 has already been used to assign a volunteer, we ignore the second occurrence of 12. We continue generating and using non - repeated numbers between 1 and 56 until all 56 volunteers are assigned.

Answer:

Ignore the second occurrence of 12 and continue generating non - repeated numbers between 1 and 56 for assignment.