A Scientist Tries to Determine Why a Particular Car Is

question 30

Multiple Choice

A scientist tries to determine why a particular car is getting a much lower gas mileage than claimed by the manufacturer by systematically designing experiments to test possible causes for the problem. This is an example of

• A) discovery science
• B) nonscience
• C) hypothesis-driven science
• D) pseudoscience

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