What do you have to do before you can form a hypothesis

What are potential hypotheses (explanations) regarding why there are ecological equivalents between many metatherians and eutherians? discuss your hypothesis in terms of the processes that could lead to the current ecologies and distributions of metatherians and eutherians.

Iam a rectangle. my perimeter is 60 feet. how much are do i cover?

Tim's phone service charges $26.39 plus an additional $0.21 for each text message sent per month. if tim's phone bill was $31.64, which equation could be used to find how many text messages, x, tim sent last month?