A track and field coach is trying to decide what beverage is the best pre-training beverage for athletes to drink before a daily training session. The coach has chosen three beverages: a soda, a Gatorade, and water for the athletes to drink before training. The coach will then collect data on their performance during the period of time while training. Afterward, the coach will track the performance of the athletes over an eight week period to see how their performance has changed. What is the coach’s purpose for performing this experiment?

The coaches purpose for performing this experiment is to see which beverage would help atheletes the best before a daily training session.

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cells use diffusion to get substances in and out of themselves. that diffusion will occur across the cell membrane or the outer covering of the cell. because we are talking about the surface of the cell, surface area and volume are  important factors here. as a cell increases in size, its surface area and volume increase as well.  we call that the surface area to volume ratio (sa: vol).  but the catch is that  volume increases at a greater rate than surface  area. in other words, as a cell gets bigger, the sa: vol gets smaller. so a really small cell like bacteria is mostly cell membrane (surface) with very little contents (volume). a really big cell like an egg, is mostly insides with a super thin membrane. so what ends up happening is that the cell cannot efficiently diffuse all of the stuff it needs in/out to survive. therefore cell size is limited to about 100mm. so how do we make organisms bigger than 100mm? cells divide! by dividing and becoming multicellular, organisms are able to grow!   check out the diagrams i attached to see the effect of sa: vol. i hope this ! good luck!