Question

A student adds 10 grams of four different powdered solids into four different beakers. The student then adds 100 mL of water to each beaker, stirs the mixtures, and allows them to sit for half an hour before recording observations. Which question is the student most likely trying to answer with this investigation?

Answer 1

Which substance dissolves in water?

Explanation:

The student adds the same amount of substance of different types i.e., 10 grams to each beaker and the same amount of water i.e., 100 mL to each beaker. All of them are stirred and observations are taken down at the end of thirty minutes.

That is all that is mentioned in the question. The student is most likely measuring which substance dissolves in water. As all the other variables are kept constant.

So, the student here is most likely trying to answer the question "Which substance dissolves in water?"