Question

Jamie is explaining to her classmates that she conducted an experiment over the weekend to see if adding more eggs to a cupcake recipe would affect the taste and texture of her cupcakes. She told her classmates that she noticed her cupcakes were moister and even taller. She said she measured each cupcake and the ones made with 3 eggs instead of two were 0.25-.05 centimeters taller than the ones with only 2 eggs. She also said that the ones with more eggs seemed to be a darker shade than the ones with fewer eggs. Jamie said the amount of eggs didn’t affect how many cupcakes she could make. She was only able to get 6 jumbo sized cupcakes with the recipe even if she added an extra egg. Question: List at least 2 qualitative and 2 quantitative observations that Jamie made in her experiment. (4 points)

Answer 1

Answer:

Two of the qualitative traits that Jamie observed were

1. The cakes with more eggs were darker in shade.

2. The cakes with more eggs were moister.

Two of the quantitative traits that Jamie observed were

1. The cakes made with 3 eggs were 0.25 to 0.5 cm taller as compared to the ones made 2 eggs.

2. The number of cakes made by using either 2 or 3 eggs remained six.

Explanation:

Qualitative research can be described as observations that are made through explorations. Qualitative research best explains the reasons for a particular hypothesis. In the following question, two of the qualitative traits that were observed were

1. The cakes with more eggs being darker in shade than the cakes with less number of eggs.

2. The cakes with more eggs being moister than the ones with less eggs.

Quantitative research can be described as the type of research in which statistical or numbering data is used to explain any hypothesis or observation. Two of the quantitative observations made in the following experiment by Jamie were

1. The cakes made with 3 eggs were 0.25 to 0.5 cm taller as compared to the ones made 2 eggs.

2. The number of cakes made by using either 2 or 3 eggs remained six.