Question

A relationship between two variables is described below. We can think of one variable as helping to explain the other. Is the indicated variable the explanatory variable or the response variable? Lung capacity and number of years smoking cigarettes. Number of years smoking cigarettes is the:

Answer 1

Explanatory Variable

Explanation:

The variable that we can change is called the Explanatory variable.

The response variable dependent upon the explanatory variable, as we change the value of the explanatory variable the value of the response variable is also gets changed.

The number of years smoking a cigarette is in our control so it is an explanatory variable.

and, the impact of the number of years smoking a cigarette is directly on lung capacity, so it is Response variable.