Business Research, Part IIRES 351Determine the most appropriate research design for the issue, opportunity, or problemThe most appropriate research design is to use the preliminary analysis plan. In this plan, Ace Cable can determine the best avenue to recruit customers by age, and frequency. In this analysis, Ace Cable would develop a table that conducts and displays data that the company expects to secure. This table is a cross between two or more variables to research any issues, and creates the opportunity to recruit new customers. Explain why two other research designs were not used Exploratory studies are useful when the company lack a clear idea of the issue at hand. Ace Cable has a stated hypothesis and specific questions designed to answer questions such as whom, what, and why. Casual studies focus on correlations between location and probability, or cause and effect. Data collection instrument, Interviewing One of the collection instruments that could be used for customer enrollment at Ace Cable Company is interviewing. Interviewing can be done on current customers to determine areas of opportunity or