The relationship between stability and transition state was mentioned:P7: I think product C is going to have both the higher transition and … … final product state. However, a detailed representation for the transition state was never provided. Additionally, students never provided a thorough argument for stability (electronics) versus sterics to account for why the 405 activation energy of the major product is lower than the activation energy of the minor product. Similar to the Markovnikov addition, students appeared to apply a heuristic that the major product is both kinetically and thermodynamically favored.