Question

A food company has designed new types of breakfast cereal and is now working to decide which cereal to mass produce and begin selling. They can measure some traits of the cereals with scientific tools, but they also use small surveys to ask cereal buyers about their opinions. Which question could most likely be answered scientifically by the food company? Which cereal's box is the best color? Which cereal tastes the best to every eater? Which cereal contains the most sugar? Which cereal would sell the most boxes?

Answer 1

Answer: Which cereal contains the most sugar?

Explanation:

A scientific question can be define as the question which can only be answered by using experimentation procedures.

In the given condition, Which cereal contains the most sugar? The food company can conduct experimental trials to know the content of sugar. Hence, it is a scientific question.

Answer 2

The food company’s questions are best answered by a combination of survey and scientific tools. To answer questions such as ‘which cereal's box is the best color?’ and ‘which cereal tastes the best to every eater?’ as well as ‘which cereal would sell the most boxes?’, the food company would need to conduct a survey to a group of people which resembles their target group most. The result would help them in answering those questions.

However, to answer ‘Which cereal contains the most sugar?’, the food company would need to use scientific tools to measure to sugar content in the cereal. This is the answer.