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Try this shmoop on for size...

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Why not conduct a little experiment of your own...

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and hit pause so you can review the following passage.

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One of the students ended up with the salt and sand together in the distillation chamber.

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What do you think the student did wrong?

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And here are the potential answers...

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So what's this question asking?

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Looks like a critical thinking problem.

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We have to figure out why the experiment went wrong based on what we know.

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First things first, what's the proper procedure for the experiment?

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Let's just follow the steps that they gave us:

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Step 1- filter paper. Step 2- distillation chamber.

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What was supposed to happen during each step?

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Step 1- remove sand. Step 2- isolate salt.

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So what went wrong in this question?

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This student ended up with salt and sand in the distillation chamber.

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But...step 2 says we should only have salt left in the distillation chamber.

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Somehow, this student forgot to get rid of the sand before using the chamber.

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Hmm, how could that have happened?

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Could it be...that the careless student forgot to do step 1?

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Forgetting the first step in this experiment means that the sand never got removed from

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the salt and water, and was left with the salt in the distillation chamber.

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Sounds like exactly what happened to this poor befuddled student.

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Option C's the correct answer.

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