Asked by Sadie

Scenario: You want to test to see if the number of clothes you put in the dryer affects how long it takes for them to get dry.

What is the Independent Variable?

1) The number of clothes you put in the dryer.
2) What settings you put the dryer on
3) The time it takes for the clothes to dry
4) How wet the clothes were pior to drying them

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
1) The number of clothes you put in the dryer.

That's what you change on purpose (the independent variable). The dependent variable would be 3) the time it takes for the clothes to dry. Options 2 and 4 are things you should keep the same (control variables).