You have conducted an experiment examining the effect of a high fat diet on weig

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You have conducted an experiment examining the effect of a high fat diet on weight gain in hamsters. You feed 20 hamsters a high fat diet, 20 hamsters receive a low fat diet and 20 ham s receive a fat free diet. At the end of 3 weeks, you weigh each hamster and calculate the average weight gain. You then graph the data. What do you put on the X axis? The diet groups for the hamsters (high fat, low fat, no fat) Average weight gain Average total weight of the hamsters at 3 weeks Each individual hamster's final weight

Explanation / Answer

Answer: (a) The diet groups of the hamsters (high fat, low fat, no fat)

Explanation:

In preparing the graph, the independent variable goes to the X-axis (also called the independent axis or "the cause"). The dependent variable goes to the Y-axis (also called the dependent axis or "the effect")

Here, the independent variable or the cause are the high fat, low fat or fat free diet, So, the diet groups of the hamsters should be plotted on the X-axis.

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