Air pressure is measured in pascals. For a professional American football game, the ball should be inflated to about 90,000 pascals. Scientists studied the effects of air temperature on the pressure inside American footballs by taking these steps:1. Prepare 100 footballs.2. Measure each football's air pressure.3. Divide footballs into 10 groups.4. Place the groups in different lockers cooled to different air temperatures.5. After 12 hours, remove the footballs from lockers.6. Measure each football’s pressure again.7. Compare the new pressures to the starting pressures.
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independent, qualitativeB
independent, quantitativeThe scientists change the air temperature in the lockers, so temperature is the independent variable. They measure the footballs’ pressure afterward to see how it responds, making pressure the dependent variable. Pressure is recorded as a number in pascals, so it is quantitative. The correct choice is dependent, quantitative.
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