Read the following paragraph carefully, and then show how the scientific method was used by answering the questions below. Emma’s dad makes great pancakes. One morning, Emma’s dad decided to try a new pancake recipe. The pancakes were a disaster. What could have happened? He had always made terrific pancakes. Hedidn’t want his family to think he had lost his pancake-making touch, so he decided to investigate why hisnew recipe was a flop. He checked the temperature on his stove. He checked to make sure the pan hehad used was clean. He checked to make sure he had used the right ingredients. What could it be? As here-read the recipe, he noticed that it did not call for eggs. He had used eggs in every other pancake recipehe had tried. Could this be what went wrong? But how many eggs should he add? He tried the recipeagain, adding one egg. The results were not so great. He tried again, adding two eggs. Much better!Would the recipe be even better if he added three eggs? He tried it. No; the pancakes weren’t better. Hetried the recipe several more times, adding two eggs each time. That was it! The recipe needed two eggs. Now, he cooks perfect pancakes every time.

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What was the problem?