Question

Deer are eating Mr. Thompson’s rose bushes. He puts a new deer repellent on half of his rose bushes and then waters them. He uses the same amount of water on the other half of his rose bushes but does not put the repellent on them. What is the control group for his experiment?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

What he is trying to do is see if the repellant does any good. So the roses that do not get the repellent are the control group.

If they become 1/2 chewed up, and the others do not, the repellent works.

We had deer that visited our property and their favorite flower was the tulip. They are very sloppy eaters -- no table manners at all. So it was evident that they had been there, I don't think they liked coffee and that's how the problem was solved.

They did not attack our vegetables (carrots which have a high natural sugar content), nor anything in the garden

Just the tulips around the house.