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Chapter 3: Q.1.2 (page 144)

The National Student Loan Survey provides data on the amount of debt for recent college graduates, their current income, and how stressed they feel about college debt. A sociologist looks at the data with the goal of using the amount of debt and income to explain the stress caused by college debt.

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Stress is the response variable because it is caused by college debt and college debt is an explanatory variable because it is not dependent on any other value or variable.

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Given Information

According to the information ,

Explanatory variable =College debt

Response variable =Stress.

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Explanation

A sociologist is looking at data from the National Student Loan Survey to see how much money college graduates make, how much debt they have overall, and how stressed they are about their student loan.

A variable that is independent of all other variables is referred to as an explanatory variable. The explanatory or independent variable, on the other hand, is dependent on the value of the response variable, also known as a dependent variable.

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