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Dear Ms. Love,
We are here to answer your questions. To begin, we chose to water our seeds with sparkling, flavored, and regular water because we were all curious to see how carbonated and flavored water would effect, or help the seeds grow, compared to how normal water would. Next, in order for a seed to germinate, it must have water, sunlight, and oxygen. Additionally, yes, an ungerminated seed will be included in the average of all ten plants. This will affect our results because it will reveal to us what type of water is helping the plant grow, according to the ungerminated seed and the type of water it is in. To answer your last question, yes, we have considered the reasons why it is so important to explain our experimental set up in such detail. It helps us as well as you to understand how the experiment will be working. We hope we answered all your questions.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Reckless Ryegrass
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