A field researcher who studies lions conjectured that the more time a cub spends playing, the sooner the cub will begin to hunt. observational data were collected from 20 lion cubs. the researcher recorded how long they spent playing and the age when they began hunting. because male and female lions have different hunting behaviors, the researcher recorded the data for males and females separately. the two scatterplots show the data for the 10 female lions and the 10 male lions. based on the scatterplots, for which gender does there appear to be evidence that the more time a lion cub spends playing, the sooner the cub is likely to begin hunting

The research carried out on 20 cubs in which 10 were male cubs and the remaining ten were female cubs showed that cubs starts playing with their mothers from an early age and they learn how to hunt by watching their mothers hunt. when they are playing they also develop hunting skills in the process. the female lion starts hunting the later years of their life because they stay longer with the pride ( group of lions)

while the Male lion leaves the pride at an early stage of life ( 2 - 3 years) therefore they have to start hunting at an earlier age to feed and defend themselves

yersanabria yersanabria · Answer 2 · 2021-09-29T14:33:15+02:00

The correct option for the question is:

A) For female cubs only.

Scatterplots information.

Since the researcher's conjecture is that the longer the cubs play, the faster their first hunt will occur, the graphs should show a negative slope indicating that the higher the value on the y-axis, lower the values for the x-axis or higher value on the x-axis, lower value on the y-axis.

In the graphs, this mentioned trend can only be identified in the case of female cubs, where cubs that played between 3.5 and 4 hours a day started hunting after 13 months, while those that played more than 4 hours a day , they started hunting even before 12 months.

For their part, male cubs present a more random distribution, with cases such as a cub that played only 3.8 hours a day on average, and started hunting before 11 months, while others that played more than 4.7 hours a day, They started hunting after 13 months.

For these reasons, the researcher's hypothesis is only supported by data obtained from female cubs only.

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