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A large school district wants to estimate the average GPA of all 15,000 students using a budget of 5,000.Twosamplingstrategiesareavailable:(1)Simplerandomsamplingat5,000. Two sampling strategies are available: (1) Simple random sampling at $5perstudent,(2)Clustersampling(schoolsasclusters)atper student, (2) Cluster sampling (schools as clusters) at$1$ per student. If within-school GPA variation is much larger than between-school variation, which strategy is preferable and why?