A Final Year student seeks to conduct a survey for her Project. She proposes to determine the

incidence of blossom-end rot in tomatoes cultivated by farmers in Cane Grove, Mahaica.

(a) Choose an appropriate sampling method and justify your choice.

(b) With the aid of specific examples, describe one advantage and one disadvantage to the

use of the chosen sampling method.

(c) Suggest the research problem that would have prompted this study.

(d) Write an appropriate research question for the study.

(e) State why a hypothesis may not be required.