Question

Kayla thinks she has noticed a pattern of differences in her male and female friends' video game scores and she wonders why. She notices her male friends spend more time playing and thinks that may be the reason. Which of the following is an attempt to achieve the goal of prediction?a. calculating her friends’ average scoresb. making the males in her study play with one handc. hypothesizing scores will be equivalent if they play the same amount of timed. using the study results to improve female’s scores

Answer 1

Answer: hypothesizing scores will be equivalent if they play the same amount of time.

In order for Kayla to be sure why her male and female friends scores vary, she should hypothesize their scores for playing the same amount of time because that's the only differing factor that she has observed.