In Presenting Data That Result from an Experiment, a Group

question 5

Multiple Choice

In presenting data that result from an experiment, a group of students show that most of their measurements fall on a straight diagonal line on their graph. However, two of their data points are "outliers" and fall far to one side of the expected relationship. What should they do?

• A) Do not show these points because clearly something went wrong in the experiment.
• B) Average several trials, rule out the improbable results, and do not show them in the final work.
• C) Show all results obtained and then try to explore the reason(s) for these outliers.
• D) Change the details of the experiment until they can obtain the expected results.

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