An amusement park's owners are considering extending the weeks of the year that it is opened. The owners would like to survey 100 randomly selected families to see whether an extended season would be of interest to those that may visit the amusement park.What is the best way to randomly choose these 100 families? Have the owners of the amusement park ask the first 100 people they see.Choose a neighborhood near the amusement park and ask 100 families in this neighborhood.Ask the first 100 families that enter the amusement park on a busy weekend day.Allow a random number generator to come up with 100 families within a 50 radius of the amusement park.

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Option 1:

- The owners asking the first 100 people they see would mean that they would see only those around them. This could be anyone at all from workers in the amusement park to people outside the park; these would not be random, and would not necessarily be a family but the survey is talking about randomly choosing 100 families. Because of these reasons, this is not the best way to randomly choose 100 families.

Option 2:

- Choosing a neighborhood near the amusement park would mean that they go to a neighborhood with families that might visit the amusement park and there would be many families to randomly choose from.

- This option seems like a good choice to randomly choose these 100 families that might visit the amusement park.

Option 3:

- Asking the first 100 families that enter the amusement park on a busy weekend would definitely bias the survey since families that you find in the amusement park are families that definitely want to be there and if they are there on a busy weekend, they certainly would not mind extending the season