Question

A cracker manufacturer wants to know how a new cracker she wants to make compares to the competition, so she has people in a sample of supermarkets across the country ask people to compare three crackers: one of her crackers and two competing crackers. This is an example of what kind of statistical study?\
1.Experiment
2.Observational Study
3.Survey

Answer 1

Answer:

I believe the answer would be survey seeing as other people would be trying all three and comparing one to the other two

Answer 2

This is an example of SURVEY.    

Survey can be defined as a method where a lot of information is gathered from a sample of people with respect to a larger population to generalize some result.    

Here, the manufacturer is surveying about the comparison of three crackers by asking people in supermarkets.