A student predicts the extension of a spring for a 7 N load from a graph covering 0–10 N. This is:

  1. an extrapolation far outside the data
  2. a reasonable prediction (interpolation)
  3. impossible
  4. a hypothesis
Answer

B) a reasonable prediction (interpolation)

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