A hypothesis is often described as a scientific guess.
Scientific method is a series of systematic approach developed to carry out scientific investigations.
These methods are:
Observation ----- Hypothesis --------- Theory ------------ Law
A hypothesis is a scientific explanation to an observation. It provides a platform for carrying out experiments to test ideas and to see how repeatable an observation can be.
The answer to this question is option C "Constructing a hypothesis." A hypothesis is a statement that basically says what you will be testing it's a educated guess on what you think what will happen in a experiment for example out of three brands of popcorn I think the butter popcorn will leave the most amount of kernels.