It can depend on nothing or on an variable which is outside of the scope of the study.
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There is no term other than independent variable.
The Independent Variable!
An independent variable is a factor that doesn't rely on anything, unlike the dependent variable (which relies on the independent variable). The most common independent variable is time.
Well, we in the math world represent the independent variable as x. It does not depend on anything. For example, one chocolate bar costs 2.50$. The independent variable is the number of chocolate bars ( the other variable does not decide how many chocolate bars are being bought), and the dependent variable is the cost (depends on the number of chocolate bars). Have a nice day and i hope you ace your math tests!
an independent variable is a thing you can change on your own. a depentent variable is a variable you depend on and a responding variable is a variable that reacts to the experiment