Answer to Question #130294 in General Chemistry for travis

Question

A company wants to test a dog food that should help underweight dogs become healthy quickly. 50 dogs are given the food and another 50 are left to eat like before. After one month the dogs were checked to see if weight was normal. what is the independent, dependent and control variable

Answer 1

The independent variable is the food given to the dogs.

The food given causes either weight gain or weight loss to the dogs being experimented upon.

The dependent variable is the weight gained or lost by the dogs.

The control variable is the health of the dogs in general.