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Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.

Is the response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week question mark "response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week? " a discrete random variable, a continuous random variable, or not a random variable?

Afarmer has 5 times as many cows as pigs. the farmer only has cows and pigs, and he has 168 animals. how many cows does he have?