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POSSIBLE Answer the questions for each real-world situation. The table gives the amount of water in a water tank as it is being filled. Gallons 50 100 150 200 250 Time (min) 10 20 30 40 50 1. Why is gallons the dependent våriable? 2. Divide gallons by time in each pair of cells. What do you get? . 3. If the time is 60 minutes, how would you get the gallons? What would you get? . M 1

Answer 1

Question 1

A dependent variable It is something that depends on other factors.

Dependent variables are also known as outcome variables (they represent the outcome you want to measure).

Gallons is the dependent variable because the amount of water in the tank depends on the time taken to fill the tank.

Question 2