Problem: Pretend that you are a zookeeper. When you clean the lemur enclosure, you notice fruit is being left behind. You want to make sure that your troop of lemurs receives a nutritionally complete diet so you provide a choice test to determine if they are more likely to eat the banana or apples, the only fruit provided. To conduct an experiment that addresses this question, you place a bowl of banana slices and a bowl of apple slices at random in their enclosure. You then sit in an inconspicuous spot and count the number of lemurs that visit each bowl over a period of several hours.
1) What are the independent and dependent variables in this experiment?
2) What are the null and alternative hypotheses for this experiment? (Make sure your hypotheses include the independent and dependent variables!