Please choose the correct answer to the question: Joanne wants to investigate factors that affect different patterns of the flight of bees. Which step in the scientific method must she follow before forming a hypothesis?

Answer1: record data of numbers of bees Answer2: measure the distances of bee flights Answer3: draw a conclusion about when bees fly Answer4: gather information about flight patterns

Answer format: answer1/answer2/answer3/answer4
Answer: answer4