Final Project Sc300

Final Project

Shawn Morrill

SC300-04

Kaplan University

Not everyone understands that what we do every day can be scientific method. It’s as simple as looking at how we do something. We make decisions based off of observations. We look for a way to process information. If we do not know information we look up the information to further help our investigation. We look to see if the decision or idea we originally had was a good one or if we have to try it again.

Scenario 1 is pretty complicated. Here are all the details. After leaving for work, you notice that your gas gauge is on empty. The place of your employment is 10 miles away and you cannot get to work without filing up the tank. The vehicle you are in is not a newer model that has a reserve tank. Unfortunately, you have 20 minutes to get to work for an important meeting, and just realized you left your wallet and cell phone at home. What do you do? (SC300, 2014).

So the first step in the scientific method is asking a testable question. With looking at the information that was provided, there are so many different questions that could be thought of. First one is how long have you been running on empty? Second one is how far can the particular car go on empty before it is really empty? A third question would be, is there anyone nearby that can lend you money until you get home? All of these are verifiable, but not necessarily testable. So for the purpose of this scenario, we are going to go with the how far can the particular car go on empty before it is really empty? The particular car for this scenario is going to be a 1996 Toyota Corolla. For the purpose of this scenario, we are going to assume that the gas gauge came up as empty sometime within the travel to work.

The second step in the scientific method is doing some background research on the topic. The fuel capacity for the ’96 Corolla is “13.2 gallons” (Edmunds.com, n.d.). On average, the Corolla can go about 46 miles once you hit empty...