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You desire to survey of likely voters in Michigan to determine whether they would support a...

You desire to survey of likely voters in Michigan to determine whether they would support a tax increase to subsidize the building of a new General Motors facility in the state.

A) Formulate 3 pertinent questions that would be useful to ask in this survey, along with possible answer choices for your respondents (don't ask for demographics only...no questions on gender, age, etc.). Why would you ask these questions?

B) To whom would you distribute your survey? Why would this be an appropriate sample group? What sample size would you recommend and why?

C) What kind of literature base would you use to underlie your statistical information? (Cite three examples of relevant scholarly literature.)

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