A package of freshly picked sweet peas weighed 454g the peas were freeze dried and the recovered peas weighed 122g what was lost and what is the percentage of the compound lost

Water was lost from the peas. 73.1% of the mass of the original peas was water. The process of freeze-drying removes excess water and allows for food to be preserved while minimizing weight. So the answer to the 1st question is that water was lost. To calculate the answer to the second question, you simply divide the mass of water lost by the original mass, so (454 - 122) / 454 = 332 / 454 = 0.7312 = 73.1%

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.

it's filtration, but this is an assumption so my apologies if i got this