Question

Which hypothesis could be used in a scientific experiment and possibly lead to more hypotheses and experimentation? If the amount of chocolate chips put into cookie increases, then the cookies will taste better, because everybody prefers chocolate cookies. If students spend more time reading on their own, their ELA grades will increase, because they will have more practice analyzing what they read. If young people spend more time playing a musical instrument than video games, they will be more cool, because music has been more popular throughout history. If a car is painted a darker color, then it will drive farther and more efficiently, because drivers prefer darker-colored cars

Answer 1

"If students spend more time reading on their own, their ELA grades will increase, because they will have more practice analyzing what they read," because the first and third are simply opinions, music may be cool to some but not to everyone and not everyone prefers chocolate cookies.

Answer 2

The correct answer will be option-If students spend more time reading on their own, their ELA grades will increase, because they will have more practice analyzing what they read.

Step-by-step explanation:

A scientific hypothesis is a proposed idea or an "educated guess" based on the prior research and predictions which can be tested through the experiments.

A scientific hypothesis can lead us to reach a conclusion related to the scientific issue which can lead to the formation of another hypothesis.

In the given question, the option which includes the reading and practice can be best explained and lead to another hypothesis as the hypothesis is not based on the personal ideas or opinions but previous research evidence could be found. The hypothesis experiments can be performed.

Thus, the selected option is the correct answer.