Step 3: When the surveys are all returned calculate the results basing it on who eats and who doesn't eat breakfast.

Step 4: Have people purposely not eat breakfast one morning.

Step 5: Before they eat give them one of the speed test. Time them and record how many questions they got right.

Step 6: Prepare the suggested servings that is on the cereal box. In our case, 1 1/4 cups of "Vector" cereal, 3/4 cup of milk (2%).

Step 7: After everyone has finished eating wait a couple of minutes before giving them the next test.

Step 8: Time how fast they did the test and record how many questions they got right.

Step 9: Give them another speed test on the day they go back to their regular routine.

Observations:

We noticed after the students ate, the cereal, they did the quiz faster in most cases.

When marking the test, we noticed that the marks were not as high as after they ate.

We noticed that some people ate faster than others.

Interpretation of Observations:

The test times probably improved because they were more prepared mentally either because of the breakfast or because they just did better.

The test scores probably improved because of the breakfast or because they were more focused at that point.

Some people ate faster than others because they were probably used to eating fast or eating slow.

Sources of Error:

The people who ate fast got more time to digest the cereal, which means that the food had more of an effect on them rather than the ones who ate slower.

Some people might look at the questions in advance.

They might have lied to us and ate breakfast when they were not suppose to.

Conclusion:

Given all the information that we have found out through this experiment, we accept our hypothesis.

Application:

Through all of the experimenting that we have done,

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