Question

You did an experiment where you want to test if a special kind of fertilizer will actually help your apple tree produce a lot of apples. To do the experiment you went to your local nursery and purchased two of the same kind of apple trees. You planted both trees in your sunny backyard , gave both of them the same amount of waterbut you gave one tree the special fertilizer and the other tree with the regular old fertilizer you've used before . After about a month , you noticed that the tree that got the special fertilizer grew over 100 apples than the other tree that grew about 40 apples . From this experiment , which of the following is considered the dependent variable ?

Answer 1

Dependent variable: number of apples

Explanation:

In an experiment, the independent variable is the variable that isn't modified by the other variables measured in the experiment. In the example above indicated, the independent variable is the fertilizer used in the experiment. On the other hand, the dependent variable is the variable tested or measured in the experiment, thereby this variable is 'dependent' of the independent variable.