Cicadas as fertilizer? Every 17 years, swarms of cicadas emerge from the ground 4in the

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Cicadas as fertilizer? Every 17 years, swarms of cicadas emerge from the ground 4in the eastern United States, live for about six weeks, then die. (There are severalbroods, so we experience cicada eruptions more often than every 17 years.)There are so many cicadas that their dead bodies can serve as fertilizer andincrease plant growth. In an experiment, a researcher added 10 cicadas undersome plants in a natural plot of American bellflowers in a forest, leaving otherplants undisturbed. One of the response variables was the size of seeds producedby the plants. Here are data (seed mass in milligrams) for 39 cicada plants and33 undisturbed (control) plants:4Cicada plants Control plants0.237 0.277 0.241 0.142 0.212 0.188 0.263 0.2530.109 0.209 0.238 0.277 0.261 0.265 0.135 0.1700.261 0.227 0.171 0.235 0.203 0.241 0.257 0.1550.276 0.234 0.255 0.296 0.215 0.285 0.198 0.2660.239 0.266 0.296 0.217 0.178 0.244 0.190 0.2120.238 0.210 0.295 0.193 0.290 0.253 0.249 0.2530.218 0.263 0.305 0.257 0.268 0.190 0.196 0.2200.351 0.245 0.226 0.276 0.246 0.145 0.247 0.1400.317 0.310 0.223 0.229 0.2410.192 0.201 0.211 Do the data support the idea that dead cicadas can serve as fertilizer? Follow thefour-step process (page 53) in your work.