Question

Jamie is explaining to her classmates that she conducted an experiment over the weekend to see if adding more eggs to a cupcake recipe would affect the taste and texture of her cupcakes. She told her classmates that she noticed her cupcakes were moister and even taller. She said she measured each cupcake and the ones made with 3 eggs instead of two were 0.25-.05 centimeters taller than the ones with only 2 eggs. She also said that the ones with more eggs seemed to be a darker shade than the ones with fewer eggs. Jamie said the amount of eggs didn’t affect how many cupcakes she could make. She was only able to get 6 jumbo sized cupcakes with the recipe even if she added an extra egg. Question: List at least 2 qualitative and 2 quantitative observations that Jamie made in her experiment. (4 points)

Answer 1

Qualitative: moister, taller, and darker shade.

Quantitative: 0.25-0.5 cm taller, how many cupcakes she could make.

Step-by-step explanation:

Qualitative is observation based and Quantitative is mathematical based (i.e. measuring, etc.)

Answer 2

2 qualitative observations are -

a) Cupcakes were moister

b) Cup cakes with more eggs were darker in shade than cupcakes with fewer eggs.

2 quantitative observations are -

a) Cup cakes with 3 eggs instead of two were 0.25-.05 centimeters taller

b) Cup cakes were taller

c) She got 6 jumbo sized cupcakes with the recipe even if she added an extra egg

Step-by-step explanation:

Qualitative observations are those which cannot be defined numerically. There are mostly expression, choice and perception based

While quantitative observations are purely numerical observation having some sort of measured value. or the factors that can be measured in terms of numbers are also included in observation criteria such as long, weighted etc.

2 qualitative observations are -

a) Cupcakes were moister

b) Cup cakes with more eggs were darker in shade than cupcakes with fewer eggs.

2 quantitative observations are -

a) Cup cakes with 3 eggs instead of two were 0.25-.05 centimeters taller

b) Cup cakes were taller

c) She got 6 jumbo sized cupcakes with the recipe even if she added an extra egg