Independent and Dependent Variables

What is the missing value in the table? 

• 11
• 24
• 8
• 9

What is the missing value? 

• 12
• 20
• 26
• 16

What is the independent variable? 

• time
• distance
• speed of sloth
• none of the above

What is the dependent variable? 

• time
• distance 
• speed of the sloth
• there is not a dependent variable

1) Which graph appears to contain all the ordered pairs in this table?

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3) Which table contains only values that satisfy the

following?

y = 2x

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4) Which table only contains values that satisfy the following equation?

y = x + 5

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Dilcia wants to know how drinking milk affects how tall a Monica grows. Which is the independent variable?

• Monica's growth
• drinking milk

What would the INDEPENDENT variable be in an experiment testing which types of paper airplane goes furthest?

• the paper used
• the type of paper airplane
• the distance of each plane's flight
• how hard the plane is thrown

Identify the dependent variable:
The profit (p) and the number of candy (c) sold

• p = dependent
• c = dependent