Ann, Bob and Charlie are testing to see if putting sugar in the water helps flowers last longer. They buy six roses and place three in containers with plain water and three in containers with sugar water. They record the time before the first petal falls off. The ones in sugar water lasted only slightly longer than those in plain water.

Before concluding that adding sugar to the water does not have a significant affect on how long flowers will last, what should they do?

A) Use warm water in each container.
B) Run more trials for the experiment.
C) Try salt in the water instead of sugar.
D) Try different amounts of water in the containers.

Respuesta :

The answer is; B

The trials could also involve the use of different sugar concentrations. The different treatments could be used in a biostatistical analysis (such as analysis of variance (ANOVA)) and use of significance difference to tell whether the difference between the different treatments is insignificant or significant.


B

Run more trials for the experiment to ensure that the small difference is not significant.