Your Supervisor Has Asked You to Analyze All of the Sales

Multiple Choice

Your supervisor has asked you to analyze all of the sales receipts for your company for the entire year to determine the average sales per customer, depending on whether the customer used a credit card, or another form of payment. What would your dependent variable be in this case and how would you label it?

A) Credit card = 1, other payment method = 0
B) Average sales = 1 and credit card = 0
C) Credit card = 1, cash = 2, debit card = 0
D) We cannot determine which variable is dependent from the information provided.