Question

To determine the boing point of a liquid, a student heats 10 mL of the liquid in a test tube and records the temperature every minute for 20 minutes. In this example, time is the what?

The choices are:
Independent variable
dependent variable
hypothesis
control

Is it dependent variable?

Answer 1

dependent variable?

Answer 2

[AI-generated answer — Explain Bot]

Yes, in this example, time would be considered the dependent variable. The dependent variable is the variable that is being measured or observed in an experiment, and its value changes in response to the manipulation of the independent variable. In this case, the temperature is being measured at different time intervals (every minute for 20 minutes) as the liquid is being heated. Thus, the dependent variable in this experiment is the temperature at different time points.