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Variation can have several influences - Paper 4

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Invented plant comparison: A: deep pot, added minerals; B: shallow pot, no added minerals. Plants have different measured heights. The intended investigation is the effect of pot depth. Height can span a range; a separate recording scheme puts flower colour into named categories. No claim is made about the actual cause of the height difference.

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  1. Why does 'A: deep pot, added minerals; B: shallow pot, no added minerals' not isolate pot depth?
  2. How could you improve the comparison of pot depth?
  3. Compare the height measurements with the named flower-colour categories as types of recorded variation.

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