This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Research Variables > Dependent And Independent Variable – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dependent And Independent Variable Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What makes up an ordered pair? A) Two random numbers. B) An x-value and a y-value. C) Two pears. D) Two lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An x-value and a y-value. 2. Angel wants to know if the type of soap has an effect on how clean her clothes get. What is the independent variable? A) Amount of soap. B) Type of soap. C) How long the laundry takes. D) How clean the clothes are. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Type of soap. 3. A stapler is used to staple 100 papers, it jams 5 times during the trial. A different brand of stapler performs the same test; it jams 22 times. What is the INDEPENDENT variable? A) Brand of stapler. B) Number of papers. C) Type of staples. D) Number of times it jams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brand of stapler. 4. A movie ticket is $ 8.50 per person. What is the independent variable? A) Number of people. B) Cost. C) Space. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Number of people. 5. Priya streams movies through a company that charges her a $ 5 monthly fee plus $ 1.50 per movie What is the dependent variable? A) The cost. B) The number of movies she rents. C) The monthly fee. D) The company that she rents from. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The cost. 6. A student wishes to test the hypothesis that adding antifreeze to water lowers the freezing point of the water. What would the independent variable be? A) Amount of antifreeze added to water. B) Amount of water put into the container. C) Temperature at which the water/antifreeze mixture freezes. D) Type of thermometer used to measure the freezing point. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amount of antifreeze added to water. 7. At the farm, each fenced pen holds 5 cows. How many cows, c, can the farm have for p, pens? What is the dependent variable? A) Cows. B) Fences. C) Farms. D) Chickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cows. 8. Justin runs a bakery. He bakes 200 cookies, c, every three hours, h.c= represents cookies bakedh= represents hours A) "h" represents the independent variable. B) "c" represents the independent variable. C) "200c" represents the independent variable. D) "h" represents the dependent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "h" represents the independent variable. 9. Steve wanted to see if the type of fertilizer made sunflowers grow larger. What is the independent variable A) Type of fertilizer. B) Size of sunflower. C) Type of sun flower. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Type of fertilizer. 10. The respiration rate of a goldfish is measured. The goldfish is then placed in cold water and the respiration rate is measured again. What is the INDEPENDENT variable? A) Type of goldfish. B) Respiration rate. C) Type of bowl. D) Temperature of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temperature of water. 11. Identify the independent variable:The height of bean plants depends on the amount of water they receive. A) The bean seed. B) The amount of water provided daily. C) The amount of sunlight they're exposed to daily. D) How tall they grow by the end of the experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The amount of water provided daily. 12. A Gym Teacher is testing an experiment, If all his students drink a bottle of Gatorade before class they will work harder during his class. What is the Independent variable? A) The Gatorade. B) The number of Students. C) The Gym Teacher. D) How hard they work in his class. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Gatorade. 13. How high can an average 6th grader jump? What would be a constant in this experiment? A) The average 6th grader. B) The surface they are jumping from. C) The height they can jump. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The surface they are jumping from. 14. Samantha is bringing treats to her elementary school class on her birthday. The number of treats she brings in is based on the number of students in her class. t = the number of treatss = the number of students The number of treats she will bring can be found using the equation t=3s+5Which of the variables is independent? A) 3. B) 5. C) S. D) T. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S. 15. To rent a bicycle it costs $ 15 initially and a dollar extra per hour. Which of the variables is independent? A) Hours. B) Dollars. C) Rent. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hours. 16. Ms. S set up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls off a ramp. What is a controlled variable? A) Distance traveled by the ball. B) Height of the ramp. C) Mass of the ball. D) How far the ball went. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Height of the ramp. 17. An experiment is being done to determine how light affects the growth of small zinnia plants. One plant is placed in full sunlight, the second in a shaded area, the third in an unlit closet. What is the independent variable in the experiment? A) The type of soil. B) The type of plants. C) The length of the experiment. D) The amount of light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The amount of light. 18. The x-axis is the ..... number line in the coordinate plane. A) Vertical. B) Diagonal. C) Horizontal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horizontal. 19. Sarah is participating in a walkathon to raise money for local literacy programs. The amount of money Sarah will raise depends on the distance she walks. What is the dependent variable? A) 75. B) The distance Sarah walks. C) The amount of money Sarah will raise. D) Sarah. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The amount of money Sarah will raise. 20. A researcher did an investigation to see if corn seeds would sprout at different times depending on the temperature of the water in which they were placed. What is the independent variable? A) How much water used. B) Type of seed used. C) Water temperature. D) How long to sprout. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water temperature. 21. Mrs. Cote wanted to know if the iPhone could stand up against being dropped from different heights. She dropped them from 3 heights and saw if they broke. What is the independent variable? A) Drop height. B) If they had a case on them or not. C) If they broke. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drop height. 22. Anything in an experiment that can be changed. A) Models. B) Variables. C) Explanation. D) Qualitative data. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variables. 23. Ramone wants to know:does the distance a person kicks a soccer ball effect how well they will do on their math test. What is the dependent variable? A) How far they kick the soccer ball. B) Who the person is. C) How well they do on the math test. D) Type of soccer ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How well they do on the math test. 24. Students of different ages were given the same puzzle to assemble. The puzzle assembly time was measured. What is the independent variable? A) Same testing environment. B) Time to complete the puzzle. C) Number of pieces in the puzzle. D) Age of students. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Age of students. 25. Three redwood trees are kept at different humidity levels inside a greenhouse for 12 weeks. One tree is left outside in normal conditions. The heights of the trees are measured once a week. What is the independent variable? A) Redwood trees. B) Height of trees. C) Humidity levels. D) The greenhouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humidity levels. 26. A cow is given a growth hormone and then compared to another cow that was not given a growth hormone. Both cows were weighed at 2 years. What is the INDEPENDENT variable? A) Type of cow. B) Weight. C) Growth hormone. D) Amount of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Growth hormone. 27. Which type of bubble gum makes the biggest bubble? Which is the independent variable? A) The brand of the gum. B) How long you chew the gum. C) The amount of air to blow the bubble. D) The size of the bubble. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The brand of the gum. 28. Maika wants to do a research about reading. What could be a good independent variable? A) Reading habits. B) Reading skills. C) Book genre (adventure, nonfiction, fantasy ). D) Reading comprehension. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Book genre (adventure, nonfiction, fantasy ). 29. In a controlled experiment, how many variables can be worked with at a time? A) One. B) None. C) Two or more. D) How ever many makes sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One. 30. Catherine is testing which soil will help grass grow the tallest. The height of the grown grass is the ..... variable. 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