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Identify the DEPENDENT variable: A student is studying the effects of sunlight on tomato plants. She chooses 6 tomato plants, making sure that each of them receives the same amount of water and fertilizer each day. She gives one plant 0 hours of sunlight each day, with the other 5 plants receiving 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 hours of sunlight. At the end of the experiment, she has people try a tomato from each plant and has them rank the fruits by their sweetness. She also records the total number of leaves produced on each tomato plant. *

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Sweetness
Sunlight
Water

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It’s the sweetness since that is what is being measured in this experiment
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Sweetness because the hours are the independent variable and the sweetness depends on the hours
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