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Question 5

An agricultural student plans to estimate the average soil nitrate concentration (in mg/kg\text{mg/kg}mg/kg) across a large farm to assess its overall nutrient profile. The farm contains three distinct management zones: a heavily fertilized arable field, a sheep-grazed pasture, and a naturally low-nutrient wildflower meadow.

The student's plan is as follows:

  • Use a random number generator to generate 101010 coordinates across a digital map of the entire farm.
  • Collect a single 50 g50\text{ g}50 g soil core sample from each of these 101010 coordinates.
  • Use a basic home-testing colorimetric kit (which classifies nitrate levels into four broad categorical bands: Low, Medium, High, and Very High) to record the nitrate level of each sample.

Describe two improvements to the student's plan and explain why they would be improvements.

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