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Yosef is playing with different kinds of rubber bands. Some are very narrow and some are quite wide. Yosef is curious about the rubber bands, and develops this scientific question: Does the width of a rubber band affect how easily it can be stretched?

He decides to develop a hypothesis to test this scientific question. What could Yosef's hypothesis be?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
A clear, testable hypothesis Yosef could use is:

"If a rubber band's width increases, then it will be harder to stretch; that is, for the same applied force a wider rubber band will stretch less than a narrower one."

(Independent variable: rubber band width. Dependent variable: how easily it stretches — e.g., extension under a fixed force or force required for a fixed extension. Controls: same material, same thickness/age, same starting length, same temperature.)