Which of the following occurs in every chemical reaction? a) water is given off b) the total mass of the reactants increases c) the total mass of reactants equals the total mass of the product d) the total mass of the products is grater than the total mass of the reactants.

The goal of this experiment was to answer the question, "how does diffraction occur? " suppose you formulated this alternate hypothesis: if the gap width is increased while keeping wavelength constant, then the observed diffraction will decrease because the less the ratio between wavelength and gap width is, the smaller the observed diffraction angle will be.to test this hypothesis, you would change the  gap widthdiffraction anglewavelength  and observe the  gap widthdiffraction anglewavelength  in the system.therefore, the independent variable would be the  gap widthdiffraction anglewavelength  and the dependent variable would be the  gap widthdiffraction anglewavelength.