university administrators are becoming more and more alarmed at the number of hours students work per week while attending the university. To study this issue, one administrator was assigned to examine the relationship between the number of hours worked per week in a semester and that semester's GPA for a random sample of students. In this study, what is the explanatory variable?

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Cailyn

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27 April, 11:08

university administrators are becoming more and more alarmed at the number of hours students work per week while attending the university. To study this issue, one administrator was assigned to examine the relationship between the number of hours worked per week in a semester and that semester's GPA for a random sample of students. In this study, what is the explanatory variable?

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Rory Glover · Answer 1

The number of hours worked per week

Step-by-step explanation:

To study this issue, one administrator was assigned to examine the relationship between the number of hours worked per week in a semester and that semester's GPA for a random sample of students.

Here the explanatory variable is - the number of hours worked per week.

An explanatory variable or also called an independent variable, is the variable that is manipulated by the researcher based on the variations in the response variable of an experimental study.