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If participants in the experimental group of a drug treatment study are much younger than participants in the control group, the age of the research participants is a(n)

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Answer:

confounding variable.

Step-by-step explanation:

Confounding variables (a.k.a. confounders or confounding factors) are a type of extraneous variable that are related to a study’s independent and dependent variables.

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