This Problem Set is a part of the Lesson 14, Unit 8, Grade 7. Practice Problems: The meat department manager at a grocery store is worried some of the packages of ground beef labeled as having one pound of meat may be under-filled. He decides to take a sample of 5 packages from a shipment containing 100 packages of ground beef. The packages were numbered as they were put in the box, so each one has a different number between 1 and 100. Describe how the manager can select a fair sample of 5 packages.
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