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Meredith notices that different plant fertilizers are made up of different chemicals. Some fertilizers are high in nitrogen. Other fertilizers are high in phosphorus. Meredith hypothesizes that nitrogen-rich fertilizers are best to grow fruit crops such as strawberries. When she is designing her experiment, what should be her variable?

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The variables would be the independent and dependent variables. Independent would be the soil that she uses, and the dependent variable would be how well it grows the fruit.
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Answer:

type of fertilizer

Step-by-step explanation:

because the fertilizer varies in the amount of chemicals they have.

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