You are testing a hypothesis that salamanders disappeared from a flower bed because an invasive ant species drove them away. to test this hypothesis you make 40 flower beds with the same number of salamanders in each bed. you then place the invasive ants into 20 flower beds, and leave the other 20 beds ant free. after a month you count the number of salamanders in each flower bed.

Salamanders are being driven away from the flower beds by the invasive ants specie because the two organism have hostile relationship to each other and can not coexist.

To test the hypothesis in the question, check the explanation column below

Explanation:

40 flower beds with the same number of salamanders in each bed. You then place the invasive ants into 20 flower beds, and leave the other 20 beds ant free. Leave these for three weeks

Results:

At the end of the third week, it will be observed that the flower beds that contain the invasive ants species will no longer contain the salamanders, WHILE the 20 remaining flower beds where the ants were not placed will still contain the salamanders.

Conclusion from this hypothesis is that invasive ants specie and salamanders can not coexist

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