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During an experiment, if you purposely change the temperature to test a hypothesis, the temperature is called the

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An independent variable is what the scientist purposely changes to effect the dependent variable. Therefore the temperature would be the independent variable.
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During an experiment, if you purposely change the temperature to test a hypothesis, the temperature is called the manipulated variable.

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