To determine which student likely had an error in their results, we can analyze the times recorded for each ball. For most students, the times are consistent across the three balls they dropped, indicating that their results are reliable.
Let's break it down:
- Ziva's times: 0.52, 0.51, 0.51 (consistent)
- Jade's times: 0.51, 0.52, 0.52 (consistent)
- Eduardo's times: 0.50, 0.50, 0.50 (consistent)
- Owen's times: 0.50, 0.37, 0.51 (not consistent)
Owen recorded a time of 0.37 seconds for one of the balls while the other two times he recorded (0.50 and 0.51) are similar to the other students' times. The 0.37 second time is significantly lower than the times recorded by the other students for the same experiment, indicating a potential error in his measurement.
Thus, the student most likely to have made an error in their results is:
Owen