Since the device is a speedometer, the data it read is the speed of the racecar. Data recording involving time usually uses time as the independent variable. It was also said in the problem that it records the speed every second which shows that the time interval is constant. This means that only other data, the car's speed, is the dependent variable.
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The entire premises of this question infers to the concept of Creation. So the reason why the universe was created, in that sense, was so god could create a land to support the civilization he wanted.