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Dr. Fontenot is studying the effects of fatigue on aggression. He hypothesizes that the more fatigue a person is experiencing, the more aggressively the person will behave. The level of aggression in Dr. Fontenot's study is the ____ variable.
 
  a. independent
  b. dependent
  c. confounding
  d. intervening

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Tai is interested in how alcohol consumption affects driving ability. He gives college students two, four, or six beers and then measures how many obstacles the students hit when they are in a driving simulator. The dependent variable is ____.
 
  a. alcohol consumption
  b. driving ability
  c. the number of drinks
  d. the number of obstacles hit


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prumorgan

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
d


debasdf

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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