A math professor wants to determine whether encouraging the use of graphing calculators would increase student performance in a particular course. In a given semester, he randomly assigned calculators to one section of the course so that one half of the class had calculators, while the other half did not have calculators. At the end of the semester he compared the performance of the two groups on the final exam. Is this study an experiment or an observational study?

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