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A child has a spring. She wants to see how high she can make the spring jump into the air. First she pushes the spring down just a little bit and lets it go. Then she pushes the spring down as far as she can and lets it go. For each try, she watches the spring jump and measures how high the spring went.

Did the spring jump higher on the first or second try? Why?

  1. The spring jumped higher on the first try because it was only pushed down a little bit.
  2. The spring jumped higher on the second try because it was pushed down more than on the first try.
  3. The spring jumped the same height on both tries because it is the same spring.
  4. More information is needed because how high a spring jumps does not depend on how much it is pushed down.
Distribution of Responses
Chart showing distrubtion of responses for Item EG053003
Scale Score for Item Difficulty
(200[Easy]-800[Difficult])
416
Students Responding Correctly
Group Correct Total Percent
Overall 3071 3763 82%
Grades
  4–557874178%
  6–8 1288 1560 83%
  9–12 1205 1462 82%
Gender
  Male1419174881%
  Female1564190082%
Primary Language
  English2783337083%
  Other19126572%

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