Question

a group of students decided to design an experiment to learn more about the process of evaporation. they used the four different containers shown below. the students poured 100 milliliters of water at 20°c into each container. the containers were placed side by side on a table near the window for 24 hours. the next day, the students used a graduated cylinder to measure the amount of water left in each container. before the experiment, the students had the hypothesis that container #2 would evaporate the most water since the container was full. do the results of the experiment support the hypothesis? yes, because visually the volume in container #2 had decreased the most. yes, because container #2 was the smallest. no, because the table shows other containers with more evaporated volume. no, because container #3 has less evaporated volume. the data from the experiment is found in the table below. container starting volume 100 ml 100 ml 100 ml 100 ml ending volume 50 ml 60 ml 80 ml 90 ml evaporated volume 50 ml 40 ml 20 ml 10 ml #4 #3 #2 #1

Explanation:

Step1: Calculate evaporated volume for each container

For Container #1: $100 - 60=40$ mL. For Container #2: $100 - 80 = 20$ mL. For Container #3: $100 - 60=40$ mL. For Container #4: $100 - 50 = 50$ mL.

Step2: Analyze hypothesis and results

The hypothesis is that Container #2 would evaporate the most water. But Container #4 has evaporated 50 mL which is more than the 20 mL evaporated from Container #2.

Answer:

No, because the table shows other containers with more evaporated volume.