Question

the passage below describes an experiment. in chemistry class, cooper learned about charless law, which states that a gas expands when its temperature increases. he wondered whether this law could explain why his basketball deflated when he left it outside overnight during the winter. he predicted that a basketball would bounce better as its temperature increased and the gas inside it expanded. to test whether he was correct, cooper left his basketball outside in the snow. after one hour, he dropped the basketball from eye - level and measured how high it bounced. then, he left the ball at room temperature. after an hour, he again dropped the basketball from eye - level. finally, he repeated the test after leaving the ball in front of a heater for an hour. complete the sentence. in this experiment, the height the basketball bounced was a dependent variable an independent variable

Explanation:

The height the basketball bounced depends on the temperature - related conditions (snow, room - temperature, heater) it was exposed to. A dependent variable is what is being measured and is affected by the independent variable (temperature in this case).

Answer:

a dependent variable