Question

. What is the independent variable? (what scientist changes or makes different)Cory wants to see which cup will keep his coffee hottest. He usually drinks coffee out of a Styrofoam cup but decides to compare it to 3 different types of cups. Cory puts 250 ml of his favorite coffee at 95 degrees Celsius into a Styrofoam cup, a plastic cup, a glass cup, and a paper cup. He measures the temperature change of the coffee after 10 minutes.

Answer 1

Answer: the type of cup

Explanation: the independent variable is what you change in your experiment, to find out the different results, in this experiment the factor that they are changing in order to see which outcome is best, is the type of cup.