The Owner of a Local Ice-Cream Shop in a Small

question 107

Multiple Choice

The owner of a local ice-cream shop in a small tourist town realized that when hotel occupancy is up, sales in her ice-cream shop are also up. The relationship between hotel occupancy rate and ice-cream sales is an example of a(n) ______.

• A) dependent variable
• B) independent variable
• C) hypothesis
• D) correlation

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