A cell phone company collected data about students’ texting skills. They collected the texting speed in words per minute according to time in minutes. Identify the data’s independent and dependent variables.

Question

The independent variable is
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The dependent variable is
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Answer 1

In the context of the study about students' texting skills, the independent and dependent variables can be identified as follows:

• The independent variable is time in minutes. (This is the variable that you can control or change, and it is the factor that is believed to affect the outcome.)

• The dependent variable is texting speed in words per minute. (This variable depends on the independent variable; it is what you measure in the experiment to see if it changes based on the independent variable.)