A group of students conducted several trials of an experiment to study Newton’s second law of motion. They concluded that tripling the mass required tripling the net force applied. What quantity were the students holding constant?(1 point)

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mass
mass

acceleration
acceleration

number of trials
number of trials

net force

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The quantity that the students were holding constant is acceleration. According to Newton's second law (F = ma), if they concluded that tripling the mass required tripling the net force, they must have kept the acceleration constant while varying the mass and force.