A person hears a sound coming from a hole in the ground. Sometime later a groundhog is seen emerging from the hole in the ground. The person suspects that the sounds were made by the groundhog since they have witnessed this behavior before. The underlined portion of this story is best described as a(n)

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The underlined portion ("The person suspects that the sounds were made by the groundhog since they have witnessed this behavior before") is best described as a hypothesis because it is a proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

A Person Hears a Sound Coming from a Hole in the Ground