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Observations and inferences are important in science. How would you explain the difference between these two words?

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The difference between observations and inferences is observations uses one or more of your five senses to know or determine something. However, inferences are where you make an explanation for the observation. For example, you see steam rising off a coffee cup ( this is an observation). The coffee is hot ( this is an inference).

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