Pentru a obţine zahăr dintr-o cantitate de sfeclă de zahăr, s-a procedat astfel: - sfecla de zahăr, spălată şi tăiată în bucăţi, s-a tratat cu apă în celule de difuziune, etapă în care s-a separat un amestec omogen de zahăr (A1), în care zahărul reprezintă 14%; - amestecul (A1) a fost supus apoi unor operaţii de concentrare prin evaporare, în urma cărora a pierdut 30% din masa sa, rezultând amestecul omogen (A2); - amestecul omogen (A2) s-a centrifugat, separându-se 36 kg de zahăr şi un amestec omogen rezidual (A3), care mai conţine 8% zahăr, în procente de masă. Considerând că în timpul operaţiilor de separare, concentrare şi centrifugare nu au avut loc pierderi, determină masa de zahăr care s-a dizolvat în apa din celulele de difuziune.

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explanation:

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.

it is the most commonly accepted one