3- Marshmallow Muscles Larry was told that a certain muscle cream was the newest best thing on the market and claims to double a
person's muscle power when used as part of a muscle-building workout. Interested in this product, he buys the
special muscle cream and recruits Patrick and SpongeBob to help him with an experiment. Larry develops a special
marshmallow weight-lifting program for Patrick and SpongeBob. He meets with them once every day for a period of
2 weeks and keeps track of their results. Before each session Patrick's arms and back are lathered in the muscle
cream, while Sponge Bob's arms and back are lathered with the regular lotion.
Which person is in the control group?
SpongeBob
5
Time
Patrick
Initial Amount
18
After 1 week
24
After 2 weeks
33
What is the independent variable?
9
17
What is the dependent variable?
What should Larry's conclusion be?

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.