An Industrial Designer Wants to Determine If the New Design

question 49

Multiple Choice

An industrial designer wants to determine if the new design for a piece of office equipment will result in fewer errors. The designer sets up a machine with the old design in one room and a machine with the new design in a second room. He counts how many errors are made using each of the two machines. In this study, the number of errors that are made would be ​

• A)a control variable.
• B)the dependent variable. ​
• C)the independent variable. ​
• D)an extraneous variable. ​

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