Question

Amanda is running a mile in gym class.

She runs at a pace of $5\text{minutes}$ per mile.

What's the dependent variable in the situation.

Answer 1

Finding dependent variable in the situation:

Given, Amanda runs at a pace of $5\text{minutes}$ per mile.

This means that the time taken by Amanda is dependent on the distance covered.

Hence, the total time taken = $\mathrm{Total}\mathrm{distance}\times 5$.

Therefore, the dependent variable is total time and it is dependent on the distance travelled.