Question

A study is being conducted on the effect of gas price on the number of miles driven in a given month. Residents in two cities, one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast, are randomly selected and asked to complete a questionnaire on the type of car they drive, the number of miles they live from work, the number of children under 18 in their household, their monthly income, and the number of miles they have driven over the past 30 days. List the response variable(s).

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List the response variable(s):

First lets look at how to define this :

The response variable is the focus of a question in a study or experiment. An explanatory variable is one that explains changes in that variable. It can be anything that might affect the response variable.

Response variable is : the number of miles driven in a given month

The variables effecting this are explanatory variables: Type of car, number of cars they live from work, number of children under 18 in their household, their monthly income.