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Archimedes went through all 5 steps in the scientific method. He asked a question; he wondered if there was a way to tell if the crown is pure gold without knowing the volume. Then, he went through the background knowledge he knew; gold is the densest medal known at that time. He also realized in the bathtub that whatever volume he put in the water, that's how much water flows out. This was an important realization for his experiment. 

Next, he formed a hypothesis. Although the article doesn't say exactly what it is, I think he would have predicted that the crown was not pure gold. When he tests the hypothesis, he put a block of gold of the same mass as the crown in a bucket full of water and let it slowly overflow. He said that if the crown has the same volume, the water level would reach the top of the bucket. However, if the crown has a larger volume, more water would spill out.

In his conclusion, he found that the crown had a bigger volume to make up for the mass lost, due to the smaller density in some of the metal used. He then reported to the kind that the crown was not 100% gold.