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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Why is it important to have a control and a variable in an experiment? @monkeys @WolfMaster @Angel_Halo23

OpenStudy (anonymous):

well it is very important to control variables in an experiment because if just one small detail is overlooked, it can end up in a result that is way different from the correct result. Say you had a beaker of a liquid that you were supposed to boil in an experiment to make sure it's completely gone, but you only brought it up to a temperature that allowed a little bit of the contents of the beaker to remain. Then, if you used it in another part of the experiment, it could cause a reaction that is completely far from the reaction that would occur if you had done so the right way.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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