Read the description of a science experiment below which part of the experiment is the third step in the scientific method testing Hypotheses? A. She has a mother drop weights at the same time a window

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14 October, 17:03

Read the description of a science experiment below which part of the experiment is the third step in the scientific method testing Hypotheses? A. She has a mother drop weights at the same time a window

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Read the description of a science experiment below which part of the experiment is the third step in the scientific method testing Hypotheses?

Sarah wants to create an experiment to determine whether an object's weight determines how fast it will fall. She hopes to prove that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones. She buys two weights that have the same size and shape. However, one is heavier than the other. She has her mother drop both weights at the same time from a window. To her surprise, the weights land at exactly the same time. She repeats the experiment several times, but the weights always hit the ground at the same time. Sarah is forced to admit that she was wrong; an object's weight does not affect how fast it falls.

A. "She hopes to prove that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones." B. "She has her mother drop both weights at the same time from a window." C. "[A]n object's weight does not affect how fast it falls." D. "To her surprise, the weights land at exactly the same time."

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B. "She has her mother drop both weights at the same time from a window."

Explanation:

As you may already know, the scientific method is a set of steps that allow a scientific study to be carried out in a coherent and efficient way, thus allowing a phenomenon to be analyzed and answered.

The third step of the scientific method is called "Experimentation" and consists, literally, of carrying out an experiment to prove or deny a hypothesis created. In the case shown in the question above, the hypothesis was "Do heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects?", To prove or deny this, Sarah performed the experiment, which was asking her mother to drop both weights (one lighter and one heavier) at the same time from a window. That way, she could check the speed that each of the weights reached the floor.