Asked by Anonymous

An experimenter wants to find out if drinking coffee makes people more alert. The amount of coffee a person drinks is the:
A. hypothesis.
B. dependent variable.
C. independent variable.
D. correlation coefficient.
Answered by Constantine
The amount of coffee a person drinks is the independent variable because it is the variable that you would be manipulating to find out how that affects alertness which is the dependent variable.
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