Refer to Problem 17.

In P 17.

As part of ESPN's SportsCenturyRetrospective, a panel chosen by ESPN ranked the top 100 North American athletes of the twentieth century. For a class project, you are to obtain a simple random sample of 15 of these 100 athletes and briefly describe their athletic feats.

a. Use systematic random sampling to obtain a sample of 15 athletes.

b. In this case, is systematic random sampling an appropriate alternative to simple random sampling? Explain your answer.