Question

A student decides to be the subject in her own experiment. She wants to know how the amount of time she spends studying for a test affects the grade she makes on the test. For one semester she keeps careful records of time spent studying and the resulting test grade. She makes a scatter plot of her results.

What type of variable is study time in this experiment?


controlled variable


responding variable


test variable (independent variable)


outcome variable (dependent variable)

Answer 1

Test Variable (independent variable)

Step-by-step explanation:

X is always the independent variable/time. Test grades is dependent because it's the outcome. Trust me I took the test.