Question

You notice that over the past month, many students on campus have started wearing a new style of school sweatshirt. You think to yourself that perhaps the bookstore has recently started selling this new sweatshirt style. This prediction is an example of A) an experimental question. B) a type of observation. C) a hypothesis. D) an experiment. E) a type of control.

Answer 1

C) a hypothesis.

Step-by-step explanation:

Option A is incorrect because a thought or a prediction is not equivalent to an experimental question.

Option B is incorrect because observation has to do with taking notes of happenings in the environment.

Option D is incorrect because the prediction is not a form of experiment.

Option E is not correct because controls are only useful during experiments.

The correct option is C.

Hypothesis is a tentative statement, a guess or a prediction that has not been tested by any experiment.