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A researcher hired by a department store wants to examine whether manipulating the room temperature to be hotter as opposed to cooler affects sales of air conditioners. the best method for answering this question would be

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This would be a controlled experiment. You would randomly assign people into groups and watch their behavior as they interact with different temperatures. You would have two experimental groups and one control group.

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