1. Smithers conducts an experiment to test if a special juice increases worker productivity. He assigns 50 workers to a control group without juice and 50 to a test group with juice. The test group makes fewer stacks of paper, so the juice did not increase productivity.
2. Homer tests if coconut juice removes green slime from his shower. He sprays half with coconut juice and half with water. After 3 days, neither side changes, so coconut juice is not effective at removing slime.
3. Bart believes radiowaves make mice stronger. He exposes 10 mice to a radio and compares them to 10 unexposed mice using a wood block test. Most mice in both groups could move the block
1. Smithers conducts an experiment to test if a special juice increases worker productivity. He assigns 50 workers to a control group without juice and 50 to a test group with juice. The test group makes fewer stacks of paper, so the juice did not increase productivity.
2. Homer tests if coconut juice removes green slime from his shower. He sprays half with coconut juice and half with water. After 3 days, neither side changes, so coconut juice is not effective at removing slime.
3. Bart believes radiowaves make mice stronger. He exposes 10 mice to a radio and compares them to 10 unexposed mice using a wood block test. Most mice in both groups could move the block
1. Smithers conducts an experiment to test if a special juice increases worker productivity. He assigns 50 workers to a control group without juice and 50 to a test group with juice. The test group makes fewer stacks of paper, so the juice did not increase productivity.
2. Homer tests if coconut juice removes green slime from his shower. He sprays half with coconut juice and half with water. After 3 days, neither side changes, so coconut juice is not effective at removing slime.
3. Bart believes radiowaves make mice stronger. He exposes 10 mice to a radio and compares them to 10 unexposed mice using a wood block test. Most mice in both groups could move the block
Name MUHAMMAD ADAM MIKAEL Date 10/4/23 Class A4S120B1
The Scientific Method with the Simpsons
1. Smithers thinks that a special juice will Identify the: increase the a. Control Group productivity of =GROUP B workers. He creates two groups of 50 b. Independent Variable workers each and =SPECIAL JUICE assigns each group the same task (in this c. Dependent Variable case, they're supposed to staple a set of =STACK OF PAPER EACH papers). Group A is given the special GROUP HAS MADE juice to drink while they work. Group B is not given the special juice. After an d. What should Smithers' conclusion be? hour, Smithers counts how many stacks = THE SPECIAL JUICE THAT of papers each group has made. Group GIVEN IS A MAIN REASON A made 1,587 stacks, Group B made WHY AMMOUNT OF PAPERS 2,113 stacks. EACH GROUP ARE DIFFERENT
e. How could this experiment be
improved?
= MEASURE AMOUNT OF SPECIAL
JUICE GIVEN TO GROUP A
2. Homer notices that his shower is
covered in a a. What was the initial observation? strange green =THE SHOWER IS slime. His friend COVERED IN A STRANGE Barney tells him GREEN SLIME that coconut juice will get rid of the Identify the: green slime. b. Control Group Homer decides to =THE OTHER HALF OF THE check this this out SHOWER WITH WATER by spraying half of the shower with c. Independent Variable coconut juice. He sprays the other half =PRESENCE THE COCONUT of the shower with water. After 3 days JUICE of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. d. Dependent Variable
=AMOUNT OF GREEN SLIME
3. Bart believes that mice exposed to Identify the: radiowaves will become extra strong. a. Control Group He decides to perform this experiment =THE 10 MICE NOT EXPOSED TO by placing 10 mice near a radio for 5 THE RADIO hours. He compared these 10 mice to another 10 mice that b. Independent Variable had not been exposed. =REDIOWAVE EXPOSURE His test consisted of a heavy block of wood that blocked the c. Dependent Variable mouse food. He found =ABILITY TO MOVE WOOD BLOCK that 8 out of 10 of the radiowaved mice and 7 out of 10 of the other mice were able to move the block. d. What should Bart's conclusion be? THE RADIOWAVE EXPOSURE WOULDN’T WORK BECAUSE ONE MOUSE IS NOT ENOUGH TO CONCLUDE THAT IT WORKS 4. Krusty was told that a certain itching powder e. How could Bart's experiment be was the newest best thing improved? on the market, it even =LONGER EXPOSURE claims to cause 50% longer lasting itches. Interested in this product, he buys the itching Identify the: powder and compares it to his usual a. Control Group product. One test subject (A) is b. =GROUP A sprinkled with the original itching powder, and another test subject (B) was sprinkled with the Experimental c. Independent Variable itching powder. Subject A reported d. =TYPE OF ITCHING POWDER having itches for 30 minutes. Subject B reported to have itches for 45 minutes. e. Dependent Variable f. =HOW LONG THE SUBJECT IS 5. Lisa is working on a ITCHING science project. Her task is to answer the question: "Does Rogooti (which is g. Explain whether the data supports the a commercial hair advertisements claims about its product. product) affect the speed =SUBJECT B 45 MINUTES IS 50% of hair growth?" Her MORE THAN SUBJECT A IS 30 family is willing to MINUTES,SO THE CLAIMSEEM TO volunteer for the BE TRUE experiment. a. Describe how Lisa would perform this experiment. Identify the control group, and the independent and dependent variables in your description. =LISA WOULD TRY TO TEST TWO FAMILY MEMBERS CONTROL GROUP – ONE WOULD GROW THEIR HAIR NATURALLY INDEPENDENT VARIABLE – THWE OTHERS ONE WOULD USE THE ROOGOTI ON THEIR HAIR DEPENDENT VARIABLE – SHE WOULD MEASURE THE LENGTH