The band leader is recording the number of students in the seventh and eighth grades who play flute and clarinet. Which describes the variables in the two-way table? Band Assignments Flute Clarinet Total 7th Grade 19 24 43 8th Grade 22 18 40 Total

The two-way table organizes students by two categories: grade (7th or 8th) and instrument (flute or clarinet). Those are the variables. The totals are summaries of the counts, not a variable category, so the correct choice is “grade number and type of instrument.”

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