Your science class teacher takes a cupcake and a lead pipe to the roof of the school in order to perform an experiment. The experiment is to find out which item will fall to the ground faster. The lead pipe is much heavier than the cupcake.

You predict that the lead pipe will fall faster, because it is heavier.

When they are dropped, you observe that they hit the ground at almost exactly the same time.

How did your prediction compare with the result?

A) The prediction was not accurate, according to the results.
B) The result was not accurate, according to the prediction.
C) The prediction was accurate, according to the results.
D) The result was accurate, according to the prediction.