Based on your understanding of the ideas of external consistency and fruitfulness, which of the following statements best describes the relevance of these ideas to the acceptance of hypotheses?a. A fruitful hypothesis is considered stronger because fruitful hypotheses are always externally consistent with previously held theories. b. A fruitful hypothesis is considered stronger because fruitful hypotheses promote scientific progress by revealing new avenues of research and analysis. c. An adequate theory is always a fruitful theory. d. All internally coherent theories are fruitful.

b

Step-by-step explanation:

externally consistent ideas are the ideas that are consistent with other well-confirmed hypothesis.

Fruitfulness of a hypothesis can be measured from the fact it it suggests something other than what it was originally suppose to explain.

i'm not entirely sure

step-by-step explanation:

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d. millimeters per hour.

step-by-step explanation:

we are given that,

carlo used a rain gauge to measure the amount of water his lawn is receiving from the sprinklers.

since, according to the options, we see that,

water cannot be measured by 'miles per hour', 'meters per second' and 'grams per seconds'.

we get that, the water can be measured by 'millimeters per hour'.

hence, the appropriate rate for describing the amount of water is 'millimeters per hour'.