Question number 2 Part D only 2. In response to nutrition concerns raised last year about food served in school cafeterias, the SmallvilleSchool District entered into a one-year contract with the Healthy Alternative Meals (HAM) company. Underthis contract, the company plans and prepares meals for all elementary, middle, and high school students,with a focus on good nutrition (there are 2500 total students in the district). The school administration wouldlike to survey the students in the district to estimate the proportion of students who are satisfied with thefood under this contract.a) Is this an observational study or an experiment? Explain your reasoning.b) Describe a simple random sampling procedure that the administrators could use to select 200 studentsfrom the 2,500 students in the district.c) If a stratified random sampling procedure is used, give one example of an effective variable on which tostratify in this survey. Explain your reasoning.d) The School District proceeded with the study by randomly selecting students for the survey. The resultsshowed that 147 out of 200 students were satisfied with the food under this contract. Would it be appropriateto infer that these results adequately reflect the population? Provide an explanation for your response.

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2. d) A random sample of students is taken for conducting the survey and has been found that 147 students out of 200 were satisfied with the food under the contract.The sample of 200 students are randomly selected from the population of 2,500 students. Since the sample of students is randomly selected it would be a good representative for the entire population of students and also results of the study would be unbiased. This shows that, the results obtained using the sample would adequately reflect the population.