how to remember the difference between dependent and independent variable and which one is X n Y ?

Answer 1

for example mother age and no of children.how we want to know which one is dependent or independent and which one is x or y to draw the scatter plot

Answer 2

An independent variable is the potential stimulus or cause, usually directly manipulated by the experimenter, so it could also be called a manipulative variable.

A dependent variable is the response or measure of results.

Would you say that mother's age might cause number of children or number of children causes the mother's age?

Independent variable typically goes on ordinate (y-axis) and dependent variable on the abscissa (x-axis).

Answer 3

for first column show the mother age with the value 18,22,29,20,27,32,33,36

and the second column show the no of children with the value 2,1,3,1,2,4,3,5

and question ask to find independent and dependent variables.

that why i ask how to difference between dependent n independent