Question

the passage below describes a process of scientific inquiry. select the part of the passage that describes developing a hypothesis.
a tomato plant
colin works in a restaurant that has a vegetable garden. part of his job is to trim the stems from, or prune, the tomato plants. he wanted to know if pruning the plants affected how the tomatoes grew. he thought that the plants he had pruned would produce larger tomatoes. to test this, colin pruned twelve of his tomato plants and left another twelve unpruned. each week, he weighed the tomatoes that he picked. after one month, he compared the average weight from each plant to see if tomatoes grew larger on the pruned plants. his results showed that the pruned plants did have heavier tomatoes. colin presented his experiment and results to his coworkers, and they discussed his conclusions. they decided to continue to prune all of the tomato plants.

Explanation:

A hypothesis is an educated - guess in a scientific inquiry. In the passage, Colin thought that the plants he had pruned would produce larger tomatoes, which is his hypothesis.

Answer:

He thought that the plants he had pruned would produce larger tomatoes.