Use the Table to Answer Questions 49 and 50

question 46

Multiple Choice

Use the table to answer questions 49 and 50.
An ecologist is studying the relationship between a beetle species and a flower species. She examines six plants and counts the number of beetles and the number of flowers on each plant.

-What can we conclude from the data?

• A) Flowers cause beetles to be more abundant.
• B) Beetles cause plants to grow more flowers.
• C) A third unmeasured variable causes both beetles and flowers to increase.
• D) There is no relationship between flowers and beetles.

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