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The drama teacher wants to know whether more families of the 1200 students at the school would attend a musical or a comedy.

Which of the following survey methods will allow the drama teacher to make a valid conclusion about which genre of performance more families would attend?

For each letter of the alphabet, assign a number to each family whose last name begins with that letter, use a computer program to select a random number between 1 and the total number of families whose last name begins with that letter, and ask the family selected.
Assign a number to each family, use a computer program to select 800 random numbers between 1 and the total number of families, and ask the families selected.

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