You Are Conducting an Experiment to Determine Which Brand of Fertilizer

question 57

Multiple Choice

You are conducting an experiment to determine which brand of fertilizer results in the greatest amount of fruit production by tomato plants. In this example, the response variable would be the

• A) brand of fertilizer.
• B) unfertilized tomato plants.
• C) fertilized tomato plants.
• D) amount of fruit produced by the tomato plants.
• E) variety of tomato plants.

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