Question

glasses of soda with ice
toris brother thought that crushed ice would keep his soda cooler than whole ice cubes.
to test this idea, tori divided a large bottle of soda equally among six glasses. tori added five whole ice cubes to each of the first three glasses while her brother crushed five ice cubes into small pieces before adding them to each of the other three glasses. ten minutes after all the ice had been added to the glasses, tori used a thermometer to measure the temperature of the soda in each glass.
complete the sentence.
in this experiment, the temperature of the soda was ________.
\ta dependent variable
\tan independent variable

Explanation:

In an experiment, the independent variable is the one manipulated (here, ice type: whole or crushed), and the dependent variable depends on the independent variable. The temperature of soda depends on the ice type (whole vs crushed) used. So temperature of soda is a dependent variable.

Answer:

a dependent variable