Question

Can you give an example of a situation that contains an independent and dependent variable?

Answer 1

The more you run, they higher your heart rate gets.

Independent variable (the one you change): Distance ran

Dependent variable (changes because of independent variable): heart rate

Answer 2

The size of Teresa's lollipop and the number of minutes Teresa has been licking her lollipop.

For the relationship described here, the size of Teresa's lollipop will depend on the number of minutes that she's been licking her lollipop.

So the independent variable will be the number of minutes that Teressa has been licking her lollipop and the dependent variable will be the size of the lollipop.