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Use the following information to answer the question. A student reported that a limp stalk of celery became crisp when placed in ice water In attempting to understand what happened to the celery, the student's suggestion that water entered the celery plant an made it crisp would be a(n)

1 Deduction
2 Conclusion
3 Hypothesis
4 Experiment

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I believe the answer would be hypothesis. Because it's the students suggestion. He still doesn't know for sure so it's not the conclusion. The experiment was already given so it can't be that and the student isn't taking anything out of the experiment so it's not a deduction.
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The answer would be hypothesis.... It is a suggestion/educated guess.
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