Question

A biology student wants to conduct a study of how the amount of food affects weight gain for mice. He sets up four cages with a mouse in each cage. What are the independent variable, dependent variable, and constants? For the independent variable, what would you put in the box below for each mouse?

Answer 1

dependent variable is the weight (gain) - weight depends on the food being eaten. The dependent variable "depends" on the independent variable, hence....

independent variable is amount of food

the constant is the type of food.

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