A fertilizer manufacturer has a new fertilizer it is testing to improve the corn yield per acre. The experiment was performed with equal area, water, com type, and starting soil conditions for one growing season. Group A was subjected to the new fertilizer and
Group B was not provided any fertilizer.
The corn from Group A showed a 30 percent increase in yield per acre over the corn from Group B.
Another experiment is run on a third crop of corn, Group. This crop is given exactly half the amount of fertilizer that the Group A
got. What is a reasonable hypothesis about the result of this experiment?
A)
The Group C corn should yield a result slightly lower than the Group B
corn
The Group C corn should yield an amount somewhere between the Group
A and Group B corn
B)
Without having more data to base a prediction on doing so is likely a
pointless exercise,
The Group C corn should yield an amount exactly halfway between the
Group A corn and the Group B corn.
D)