Each year, you grow cucumbers to make your own pickles. You want to increase the

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Each year, you grow cucumbers to make your own pickles. You want to increase the yield of the cucumbers from your plants. In the past, you have not used any type of fertilizer on your plants. This year, you have noticed advertisements for Mega1 Fertilizer that, according to the manufacturer, will produce the “largest crop you’ve ever seen!” Formulate a testable hypothesis to test the claim (5 points). Design an experiment to test your hypothesis, and include your controls (5 points). Be specific in your experimental design. Predict the experimental results that would support your hypothesis.

Explanation / Answer

Hypothesis : More the Mega1 fertilizer used, the more will be the cucumber size/weight, than that does not recieve any fertilizer, but within a limit.

Experiment -

Decide five dosases of the fertilizer and treat them to cucumber seedlings, three replicates for each dosage. Arrange the same settings for another two/three additional best fertilizers known to you. Keep three additional seedlings without any treatment.

Gather and analyze data -

Plucks the cucumber and seggregate according to their dosage of the fertilizer. Measure weight/volume and record the averaged value for each dosage. Observe the trend, calculate the p-value of >0.05, for example, for camparisions with the control and draw to a conclusion.

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