Question

Imagine that you design and conduct an experiment based on your hypothesis that adding fertilizer to soil allows more plants to grow. You find that more plants grew in the soil with fertilizer than the soil without fertilizer. As a scientist, you would _________.

Answer 1

Answer:

You would have to change your hypothesis.

Explanation:

Experiments can always go "wrong", but they are important because they provide evidence that maybe is not the fertilizer the variable that is influencing plant growth. After this you could change the experiment taking into account new variables such as pH, amount of water or sunlight etc.