A youth group is planning a trip to a local amusement park. They are taking a van which holds 10 people. It will cost $25 for parking and tickets to enter the park are $18 per person.

Question

Identify the independent and dependent variables for this situation.

Answer 1

Hi James,

Independent variable (also called explanatory variable) is changed by the experimenter. In this case, presumably the youth group leader. That would be number of people. Dependent variable (also called response variable) is the one we're interested in measuring for experiments. In this case, that is total cost. I hope this helps.