Watching boats The passage below describes some of the steps of the scientific method. Select the part of the passage that describes testing the hypothesis.
Hint: To test the hypothesis, you make a series of observations or design and carry out an experiment that will support or reject the hypothesis.

As nina and erin were eating lunch in the central high school student cafeteria, they were discussing the news coverage about the girls' athletic coach being arrested for selling steroids to student athletes. "i think the guy just did it because they don't pay teachers enough money," nina suggested. "i bet the guy had some other kind of drug addiction he was trying to pay for," erin countered. nina and erin's ideas about the cause of the coach's drug-selling behavior are examples of: