Mr. Patterson, the debate team coach, is organizing a debate tournament at his school. The number of rounds in the tournament will determine how many volunteers he will need as judges.r = the number of rounds in the tournamentv = the number of volunteers needed for judgingWhich of the variables is independent and which is dependent?Choices:(A)v is the independent variable and r is the dependent variable(B)r is the independent variable and v is the dependent variable
Q. Mr. Patterson, the debate team coach, is organizing a debate tournament at his school. The number of rounds in the tournament will determine how many volunteers he will need as judges.r = the number of rounds in the tournamentv = the number of volunteers needed for judgingWhich of the variables is independent and which is dependent?Choices:(A)v is the independent variable and r is the dependent variable(B)r is the independent variable and v is the dependent variable
Define Variables: In this problem, we need to determine which variable is independent and which is dependent. The independent variable is the one that is chosen or controlled by the experimenter, while the dependent variable is the one that depends on the independent variable.
Identify Independent Variable: Since Mr. Patterson is organizing a debate tournament, he decides the number of rounds r that will be held. The number of volunteers v needed for judging depends on the number of rounds. Therefore, the number of rounds is the independent variable because it is chosen first and does not depend on anything else in this context.
Identify Dependent Variable: The number of volunteers v needed is dependent on the number of rounds r because the more rounds there are, the more volunteers will be needed. This means that the number of volunteers changes in response to the number of rounds.
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