Can someone plsss help me with this!! What best describes the "stout matron" at the end of the excerpt?

A. She is happy living in the tenement building

B. She is trying to make the best of her situation

C. She had given up hope

Ascientist performs an experiment where she measures the mass of a piece of metal, pours acid onto the metal, washes the metal, and then re-measures the mass of the metal. the scientist repeats the experiment several times, each time increasing the amount of acid used. the dependent variable in the experiment is the: initial mass of the metal final mass of the metal amount of acid used washing the metal