On the first day of school, Ted's fifth grade teacher asks her students to introduce themselves and tell the class what they did on their summer vacation. Ted notes that all of the smart kids had gone on great trips; so travel, he reasons, must make you smart.
Ted gathers information from the students in his school and analyzes it. Ted is testing this _.

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Ted is testing a hypothesis, which is an assumption or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

On the First Day of School, Ted's Fifth Grade Teacher