Question

Kelly works at an ice cream shop and observes that the number of people buying ice cream varies greatly from day to day.For a couple of weeks she has recorded the number of people at the shop each day, as well as the daily temperature. If Kelly is using the scientific method to better understand ice cream buying habits, her next step is to:

a. conclude definitively that people buy more ice cream when the temperature rises.
b. use the observed data to form a hypothesis about ice cream buying behavior.
c. state her findings as a well-tested economic principle.
d. throw out the data if it does not show a perfect relationship between buying habits and the other information she has collected.

Answer 1

B) use the observed data to form a hypothesis about ice cream buying behavior.

Step-by-step explanation:

The scientific method is a research method where the first step is recognizing and identifying the problem ⇒ relevant information is obtained ⇒ a hypothesis is formulated ⇒ the hypothesis is tested.

In order for a research (that uses the scientific method) to be valid, the researcher must be able to duplicate the research process and obtain the same or similar results.