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During a controlled experiment if you purposely change the temperature to test a hypothesis the temperature is

A: independent variable

B: responding variable

C: experimental variable

D: dependent variable

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Answer: A-independent variable

Step-by-step explanation:

An experiment starts and finishes with the factors that change during the experiment. These are the variables. The experimenter will purposely change one of the variables; this is the independent variable or manipulated variable.

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