In Presenting Data That Result from an Experiment, a Group

Multiple Choice

In presenting data that result from an experiment, a group of students show that most of their measurements fall on a straight diagonal line on their graph. However, two of their data points are "outliers" and fall far to one side of the expected relationship. What should they do?

A) Change their experiment so that the outlier data points are eliminated.
B) Average several trials, rule out the improbable results, and do not show them in the final work.
C) Show all results obtained and then try to explore the reason(s) for these outliers.
D) Redesign the experiment using a different hypothesis.
E) Change the values on the graph so that only the straight diagonal line is produced.