Melissa Conducts an Experiment to Learn If Brunettes Have More

Multiple Choice

Melissa conducts an experiment to learn if brunettes have more fun. She has three brunette female friends and three blonde female friends who go to the same party and record how many times they are asked to dance. In her experiment, Melissa has defined her __________ as the number of times thefriends were asked to dance, and her __________ as hair color.

A) independent variable; extraneous variable
B) extraneous variable; dependent variable
C) independent variable; dependent variable
D) dependent variable; independent variable