Students are selling tickets to a school fundraiser. Tickets cost $10. For every $100 in tickets a student sells, he or she earns 2% in cash as a bonus...

Question

I'm only 11 and I had a hard time answering this question. Because I wasn't able to finish the whole word problem, here it is again.

Students are selling tickets to a school fundraiser. Tickets cost $10. For every $100 in tickets a students sells, he or she earns 2% in cash as a bonus. Identify two different pairs of independent and dependent variables in this situation.

Answer 1

Well, to answer this question, you would first need to know the difference between independent and dependent. 

 

An independent variable is a variable that is manipulated whereas a dependent variable is something that is measured. 

 

In simpler terms, an independent variable is the cause and a dependent variable is the effect.

 

In this situation, one of the dependent variables would be the 2% cash back bonus, which would be the effect of selling $100 work of tickets, which would be the independent variable. 

 

Another dependent variable would be the school fundraiser itself and the independent variable to the fundraiser itself would be the cost of the tickets.