? Why might the expejiment need to be repeated when the hypothesis needs to be changed?
A hypothesis that comes after the data, is a conclusion.
There may be other factors at play unknown to the researcher.
A hypothesis always precedes the collection of data.
The hypothesis' entire existence is to be tested.

Consider a file currently consisting of 200 blocks. assume that the file control block (and the index block in the case of indexed allocation) is already in memory. calculate how many disk i/o operations are required for contiguous, linked, and indexed (single-level) allocation strategies, for each of the conditions listed below. in the contiguous-allocation case, assume that there is not room to grow at the beginning but there is room to grow at the end. also assume that the block information to be added is stored in memory.