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A student designs and experiment to test the effect of different fertilizers on plant growth. Which of the following is the independent variable?

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Answer:

Fertilizer

Step-by-step explanation:

Independent variable = a variable that does not depend on another

Since the plant growth depends on the fertilizers, we can note that plants are the dependent variable.

The fertilizer is independent since it does not depend on anything.

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