A Researcher Wants to See If a Protein-Enriched Diet Will

question 44

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to see if a protein-enriched diet will enhance the maze-running performance of rats.One group of rats is fed the high-protein diet for the duration of the study; the other group continues to receive ordinary rat chow.In this experiment,the rats' maze-running performance is the

• A) correlated variable.
• B) control variable.
• C) dependent variable.
• D) independent variable.

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