The Pancakes are actually dependent while the Batter is Independent because your are changing the batter. Think of I change in an Independent variable. You cant really change the outcome which is the dependent.
To “distribute” means to divide something or give a share or part of something. According to the distributive property, multiplying the sum of two or more addends by a number will give the same result as multiplying each addend individually by the number and then adding the products together.