D. potential energy, because there is a bunch of water pent up, essentially stationary, waiting to roll down the steep mountain from the peak, so to say. if the dam were to be removed it would become kinetic.
It can be, but set also means many other things.
A) experiment. Is the answer.
hypothesis is the educated guess about what the result of the experiment is before conducting the experiment.
Observation is what you see and record during the experiment.
J can get answer on this way:
Ek=m*V*V/2= (24kg*2m/s*2m/s)/2=48 Ј