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Introductory Statistics
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Introductory Statistics

Introductory Statistics

Book edition OER 2018
Author(s) Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Pages 902 pages
ISBN 9781938168208

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Due to erosion, a river shoreline is losing several thousand pounds of soil each year. A linear equation that expresses the total amount of soil lost per year is y = 12,000x

What are the independent and dependent variables?

The dependent variable is the amount of soil lost in the pound that is y and the independent variable is time that is year in the question x variable.

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Step 1: Given information

Given in the question is a linear equation y=12,000x.

Step 2: Solution

The independent variable is the variable the researcher operates or changes, and is guessed to contain a direct impact on the dependent variable.

The dependent variable means the variable being experimented and estimated in an investigation, and is 'dependent' on the independent variable.

The statement here is a river shoreline is losing several thousand pounds of soil each year

Here the dependent variable y is the amount of soil lost in the pound and the independent variable x is the time (year)

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