Question

4. Researchers believed that floral scent can sometimes improve a person's learning ability. They set up an experiment in which each of 22 subjects completed sets of mazes. Each subject wore a floral-scented mask and an unscented mask in random order. The researchers measured the time to complete the sets of mazes.

What is the explanatory variable (factor)?

The amount of scent.Presence or absence of the floral scent.Time to complete the pencil and paper mazes.Whether the subject was able to complete the mazes quicker while wearing the floral scented mask.

Answer 1

Presence or absence of the floral scent.

Step-by-step explanation:

An explanatory variable is a type of independent variable. These are called explanatory variables because they explain the outcome of the experiment. In these case, if researchers found differences between the time that people take to complete the mazes, the explanation would lie with the presence or absence of the floral scent.