Delete the 1 + in front of all six lines that pick numbers 1-5, so that they look like this: System.out.print( r.nextInt(5) + " " ); Run the program a few times, and see if you can figure out what range the new random numbers are in.
Change the 1 + in front of all six lines that pick numbers 1-5, so that they look like this: System.out.print( 3 + r.nextInt(5) + " " ); Run the program a few times. Is it picking random numbers from 3 to 5? If not, what range are they?
Change the line where you create the random number generator so that it looks like this: Random r = new Random(12353); This number is called a seed. Run the program a few times. What do you notice? What happened to the random numbers?
Change to random seed to something else and observe the behavior. What happens to the random numbers?
Create an array of 10 elements. Select each element randomly. Modify the array to count the number of times each element is used.

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