An experiment is conducted to determine how the boiling point of water is altered by adding incremental amounts of sucrose to a volume of water. Students, using a Bunsen burner, first measure the boiling point of 100 mL pure distilled water to use as their control. Then they add sucrose, in 10 gram increments until they reach 100 grams, to 100 mL of water. The solutions are heated and the boiling point at each incremental addition of sucrose is recorded.

Astudent sees several ants walking up a wall following the exact same trail that an ant took earlier. she wants to apply the scientific method to determine how the ants detected the trail. which of these steps would come first in her application of the scientific method? perform an experiment by cleaning the scent away from part of the trail. draw a conclusion that the ants follow a scent trail. make a prediction about what the ants will do after she cleans away part of the trail. hypothesize that the ants are following a scent trail that the first ant left.