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A group of middle school students were given a short course in math. The instructor was curious if a monetary incentive (money) would influence performance on a math test taken at the end of the course. Half the students were offered $5 for obtaining a certain level of performance on the test, the other half were not offered money.?

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Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that in regards to the experiment details the variables are the following:

The Independent Variable would be the $5 in money offered to some of the students. The Dependent Variable would be the test performance of each student. The Experimental group are the students that were offered money . The Control group are the students who were not offered money.

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