Identify Independent and Dependent Quantities

What is the DEPENDENT quantity?

• The kind of car they can rent

• How many days they rent the car

• The color of the cars

• How much money they have to pay total

Terrence types 80 words per minute.

What is the DEPENDENT quantity?

• The number of words he types

• The number of minutes

• How fast Terrence is typing

• How long the words are

What is the INDEPENDENT quantity?

• The number of words he types

• The number of minutes

• How fast Terrence is typing

• How long the words are

Which equation best describes the table?

• 5.75t = c

• c = 5.75t

• c=t

• t=c

Ms. Shi is making a scrapbook. As she adds more photos, the scrapbook grows thicker.

p = the number of photos added
t = the thickness of the scrapbook

• t is the independent variable and p is the dependent variable

• p is the independent variable and t is the dependent variable

The height of bean plants depends on the amount of water they receive. 

• The bean seed

• The amount of water provided daily

• The amount of sunlight they're exposed to daily

• How tall they grow by the end of the experiment

Priya streams movies through a company that charges her a $1.50 per movie. What is the dependent variable?

• the number of movies she rents

• the company that she rents from

• the money it costs

• There isn't one

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• B
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• A
• B
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• D