Question

Chloe wanted to find out if the color of a food would affect how quickly kindergarten children would eat it for lunch. She believed that brightly colored food would be eaten more quickly because of the urgency of the color. She put food coloring into 4 identical serving bowls filled with mashed potatoes. A 5th identical bowl received only plain natural mashed potatoes. The colors were natural white, red, blue, green, and yellow. Each child was given a scoop of potatoes. Chloe did this experiment using 50 kindergarten students. 10 students were given each of the colors. She recorded the start and finish time of each student eating the potatoes and then calculated the difference in seconds. She did this over 5 days with each student getting each color. Multiple data takers (Chloe’s friends) made this experiment possible. What would be an appropriate hypothesis for this experiment? a Brightly colored mashed potatoes will be eaten quicker than non brightly colored mashed potatoes. b If you feed students mashed potatoes, then they will be happy. c If the color of mashed potatoes is bright, then students will eat them faster than normally colored mashed potatoes. d If the type of mashed potatoes looks normal, then students will eat them

Answer 1

The appropriate hypothesis for Chloe's experiment would be: Brightly colored mashed potatoes will be eaten quicker than non brightly colored mashed potatoes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The appropriate hypothesis for Chloe's experiment would be:

a) Brightly colored mashed potatoes will be eaten quicker than non brightly colored mashed potatoes.

Chloe believes that the urgency of the color will affect how quickly kindergarten children eat the food. To test her hypothesis, she put food coloring into 4 identical serving bowls filled with mashed potatoes in different colors (red, blue, green, and yellow), and used a plain bowl of natural white mashed potatoes as a control. She then recorded the start and finish times of the children eating the potatoes and calculated the difference in seconds. Based on her belief, she predicts that the brightly colored mashed potatoes will be eaten more quickly than the plain white mashed potatoes.

Answer 2

A

The reason this is is because she the first sentence says that she believed that people would eat the mashed potatoes faster if they were brighter color.