Answer:
OptionA
Explanation:
Given is a hypothesis :
"There will be a statistically significant difference in graduation rates of at-risk high-school seniors who participate in an intensive study program as opposed to at-risk high-school seniors who do not participate in the intensive study program.”
Here we find that high school seniors of at-risk are divided into two groups and one group partipates in an intensive study program while other group does not.
Thus we find that the graduation rates of at-risk high school is the dependent variable which depends on participation or not.
A. participation in the intensive study program is the independent variable.