Question

A student conducts an experimenting to test how the temperature of a ball affects its bounce height. The same ball is used for each test, and the ball is dropped from the same height each time what is the independent variable

Answer 1

Independent variable = the thing you change.
Here the independent variable is the temperature of the ball

Answer 2

the independent variable is what you're testing or changing in an experiment, so the answer is the temperature of the ball when its dropped.

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