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Pounds is a unit. Amount of pounds sold could be an independent variable (and money made being the dependent variable). On the other hand, amount of pounds sold could be the dependent variable, and time could be the dependent variable. Pounds is just a unit.
The independent variable is the thing you change, the dependent variable is the variable that changes because of the independent variable, it could also be referred to as the effect, and the control group is the constant, the thing that stays the same and the variable that you compare your results to.
The three types of variables are: Independent: it is the one that you manipulate Dependent: the one that reacts to the changes in the independent variable and is measured in a experiment Control: all the other factors that could affect the dependent variable but are kept constant through out an experiment
As it is written, x is the independent variable and y is the dependent. But you could re-write it as x = y/23 + 30/23 and then y is the independent variable and x the dependent.
No. If you are studying waiting time, for example at a bank, the waiting time could be the dependent variable with the number of open windows as the independent variable.