Which of the following statements is true regarding scientific hypotheses?
a. there are no valuable hypotheses.
b. a testable hypothesis is valuable only if all evidence supports it.
c. every hypothesis is valuable, whether or not it is testable.
d. a testable hypothesis is valuable, even if evidence shows that it is false.

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the answer is b because, investigating whether another species of moth also drinks tears might be interesting, but it would not directly explain why this species of moth does.

to explain why this species of moth drinks tears, the scientist could ask: "what nutrients that moths need are in elephant tears? "

the scientist could experiment with moth repellent or oter ways to keep the moths away, but that would not answer his original question.