Question

A student notices that when bananas are kept near other fruits, the other fruits ripen faster. She wonders what causes the other fruits to ripen more quickly and thinks that bananas must have an influence on the ripening process. She decides to perform an experiment. She gathers bananas and apples and places an apple by itself at location A and an apple next to a banana at location B. She then waits for five days and records the how ripe each apple is.

What would be the next step in this experiment?

A. construct a hypothesis and record data

B. make observations and draw a conclusion

C. ask questions and construct a hypothesis

D. analyze the results and make a conclusion

Answer 1

i think it is D, she has already constructed the hypothesis and needs is performing the experiment. there is not much of an observation stage because she is looking at a distant end result in a set time frame.

Answer 2

The answer will be option D -  analyze the results and make a conclusion

An assumption has already been made here as the student has noticed that other fruits ripe faster when they are kept with the bananas so she has conducted the experiment to observe the result and finally conclude to some result.