An independent variable is what you change during an experiment, and a dependent variable is what gets changed.
for example, if you are monitoring temperature vs size of plants.
Everyday you change the temperature, and then record the size of the plants.
Therefore, the temperature is the ind. variable and the size of the plants is the dep. variable.
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Dependent variable is the variable that can be measured. However, the independent variable is the variable that changes in the two groups.
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Science Answer: The Dependent Variable is the Variable that changes automatically during the experiment when the Independent Variable is changed by somebody. :D
Independent variable could be the number (or spacing or size) of the laces and the dependant variable is distance. Possibly levels of the independent variable could be ranges of number of laces.
the experimental variable is like the independent variable, which is the only thing you can change in a science experiment, and the dependent variables are the things that stay the same.