Stephanie conducts an experiment to learn if brunettes have more fun.She has three brunette female friends and three blonde female friends go to the same party,and record how many times they are asked to dance.In her experiment,Stephanie has defined her ____________ as the number of times the friends were asked to dance,and her ____________ as hair colour.
A) independent variable;extraneous variable
B) extraneous variable;dependent variable
C) independent variable;dependent variable
D) dependent variable;independent variable

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The dependent variable is the number of times the friends were asked to dance, as it is what Stephanie is measuring. The independent variable is hair color, as it is the variable she is manipulating to see if it affects the dependent variable.

Stephanie Conducts an Experiment to Learn If Brunettes Have More