Answer to Question #308372 in Statistics and Probability for winnie

Question

A population consists of the five numbers 2,3,6,8, and 11. Consider samples of size 2 that can be drawn from this population.

Answer 1

we define samples that can be drawn as (NCn) since N=5 and n =2, we have (5C2) =10 possible samples

we may define the samples as

(2,3), (2,6), (2,8), (2,11), (3,6), (3,8), (3,11), (6,8), (6,11), (8,11) which are the samples of size 2 that can be drawn from the given population.