Question

Carson divided 40 unripe bananas evenly among eight paper bags and sealed the bags. He poked 20 small holes in four of the bags and left the other four without holes. He kept the bags at room temperature for three days. Then, Carson opened the bags and counted the number of brown spots on each banana. He compared the average number of brown spots on bananas from bags with holes to the average number of brown spots on bananas from bags without holes.Identify the question that Carson's experiment can best answer.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

From the illustration of the experiment, the question that Carson can best answer  is that "Do bananas develop more brown spots if they are kept in bags with holes  compared to bags without holes?"

The independent variable in the experiment is the hole poked in the bags while the dependent variable is the number of brown spots on each banana. The difference between the subjects is the hole poked in the bags, hence, any difference in the number of brown spots between bananas in the bags with holes and those in the bags without holes can be attributed to the hole poked in the bags.

Therefore, the question that can be answered from the experiment is to see if poking holes in bags make bananas to develop more brown spots compared to bags without holes.