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CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 1 · 2013 · Paper 2 · Question 1(e)(ii)

Ninety students are registered in a science programme across five courses, where students may register for multiple courses. A sample of 15 students is to be chosen for a Science Exhibition.

Explain how a random number table could be used to select the sample of 15 students from the programme.

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