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Independent and dependent variables

You are planning a hypothesis test to see if there is a difference in the amount of sunshine a city receives per year and how many hours are worked annually. Your alternative hypothesis is that more sunshine is associated with fewer hours worked.

You monitor the amount of sunshine in three cities for one hundred days, and collect data on the number of hours worked from 30 people in each city.

Your task is to decide what would be considered the dependent variable in this hypothesis test.

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Introduction to Statistics

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