The town of Indianola, Mississippi wants to know what the
community thinks about building a high-tech movie theatre. Increased taxes will be used to pay for the new theatre. Therefore, elected officials are mailing out questionnaires to determine public opinion about the theatre and the use of increased taxes to pay for it. Which type of research method are they using?
a. correlation
b. experiment
c. survey
d. case studies
ANSWER: c
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