why do you think you can find silver and gold on their own in rocks but calcium and magnesium are combined with other elements to make compounds such as calcium carbonate and magnesium sulfate?

Astudent is trying to create a table that compares hypotheses, theories, and laws. hypothesis theory law do scientific researchers formulate it? yes yes yes does it explain why things happen? yes yes no yes yes yes is it used to make predictions? no yes yes which of the following questions would most likely fill the blank in the table? is it an intelligent guess? is it newly formulated? is it based on observations? has it been proved?