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Determine whether the following scenario fits an observational study. Your teacher is trying to find the best way toteach fractions, and so they teach half the class using a traditional method and the other half of the class using hand-held fraction representations.
Option #1: Yes, an observational study is the best.
Option #2: No, an observational study is not the best.
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Option #2

This is not an observational study because the teacher is actively assigning the teaching method (a treatment) to different groups. That makes it an experiment (or at least a controlled/quasi-experiment), not an observational study where the researcher only observes existing conditions.