Read the passage. One Indy 500 event is the Indy 500 Festival Parade. A group of reporters are credited with getting the parade started. They saw that the Kentucky Derby, a horse race, had lots of events. So, they wrote several articles saying how their car race, the Indy 500, needed events too. As a result, the Indy 500 Festival Parade began. Now, every year, cheering fans line the parade route to watch this annual event.

What inference can the reader make about the public’s reaction to the first Indy 500 Festival Parade?

The public disliked the parade.
The public approved of the parade.
The public was angered by the parade.
The public was uninterested in the parade.