Periód a
august 26.10
scientific method practice
name chrotie otoboe
read the following paragraph and ingentify the parts of the entific method:
a pharmaceutical company wanted to test a nom drug developed to lesson the effects of
the common cold. to test this drug scientists tested fifty volunteers, each of whom was
suffering the effects of a cold. twenty-five of the people were given the chus, while the
other twenty five were given a placebo, a suger pill none of the participants know who was
which pill all participants received a pilet 800 an daily for the first three days of the
study, all participants lived in the same environment, with the same climate, eating the
some diet, and having the same level of activity. the severity of the cold, hence the
effectiveness of the pill, was determined by the number of tissues cach person used
within a twenty-four hour period. at the end of a seven-day period it was concluded that
those with the sugar pill had their symptoms disappear as well as those who has taken the
new wonder drug. the executive committee decided to produce the drug any way thinking
that the public would do anything to relieve the symptoms of a cold
1 state the problem:
2. hypothesis
3. independent variable:
4. dependent variable
5. control
6. date:
7. is this data qualitative or quantitative?
8. conclusion: -
8. conclusion: -