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VARIABLES

The document consists of activities focused on identifying independent, dependent, and extraneous variables through various scenarios involving students' exam scores, online sales, and plant growth. It also includes a review section with multiple-choice questions related to different types of variables, such as quantitative, qualitative, nominal, and ordinal. The content is designed to enhance understanding of experimental design and variable classification.

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VARIABLES

The document consists of activities focused on identifying independent, dependent, and extraneous variables through various scenarios involving students' exam scores, online sales, and plant growth. It also includes a review section with multiple-choice questions related to different types of variables, such as quantitative, qualitative, nominal, and ordinal. The content is designed to enhance understanding of experimental design and variable classification.

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Activity: Identifying

variables

1. Three groups of students were placed in a classroom


with controlled room temperatures of 18°C, 20°C, 25°C.
The math exam scores of the students were then taken
and compared to the other groups.
Independent variable:
Dependent variable:
Extraneous variable:
2. An online seller would like to know whether the indication of
price on Facebook posts will attract consumers more. He posted
50 products for sale on Facebook market, 25 of which he
indicated the price while the remaining 25 products, did not have
prices. Buyers were just instructed to send him a personal
message (pm) if they want to know the price. He then identified
which products have greater sales.

Independent variable:
Dependent variable:
Extraneous variable:
3. A housewife wanted to know which soil is best for her
pechay plants: the soil purchased from an online seller,
soil from her backyard compost or the soil underneath
the nearby bamboo tree. She planted 30 pechay seeds
into each soil source and then compared the growth of
pechay after a month.

Independent variable:
Dependent variable:
Extraneous variable:
Activity: Let’s
review!
1. Which variable is manipulated by the researcher?
A. Extraneous variable C. Dependent variable
B. Independent variable D. Confounding variable

2. Which of the following is an example of a quantitative


variable?
A. Plant variety C. Hair color
B. IQ D. Race

3. Which of the following is an example qualitative


variable?
4. The variable is the presumed effect of the manipulation on the
object/subject of the
experiment.
A. Extraneous variable C. Dependent variable
B. Independent variable D. Confounding variable

5. A type of variable that represent categories and can be ordered.


A. Nominal C. Ordinal
B. Discrete D. Ratio

6. What type of variable is characterized by evenly dispersed range of


numbers?
A. Nominal C. Dichotomous
7. The variable that has potential effect on the
dependent variables that are not part of the study.
A. Extraneous variable C. Dependent variable
B. Independent variable D. Confounding variable

8. A variable that is used to name, categorize, or label


the attributes being measured.
A. Nominal C. Ordinal
B. Interval D. Ratio
9. What type of variable is gender?
A. Nominal C. Dichotomous
B. Interval D. Continuous

10. What type of variable is height of students before


and after taking growth enhancers for 2 months?
A. Nominal C. Dichotomous
B. Interval D. Continuous

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