Answer: a) The explanatory variable is hours of study per week and the response variable is GPA.
b) The relantioship between the variables seems to be positive.
c) B. Observational Study.
d) A. NO. We cannot conclude that studying loger hours leads to higher GPA since this study is observational.
Step-by-step explanation: a) <u>Explanatory</u> <u>Variable</u> is a type of independent variable, which means it is a variable that doesn't depend on the other variables. However, in explanatory variable, there is a subtle relation between variables. For that reason, Hours of Study per week is an explanatory variable. <u>Response</u> <u>Variable</u> is the dependent variable, it is the result when you change the other variable. For that reason, GPA is the response variable.
b) Observing the graphic, which is in the attachment, it can be observed that students who study more hours per week, tend to have higher GPA. For example, people who studied 60 hours per week have a GPA closer to 4.
c) <u>Observational</u> <u>Studies</u> are those experiment where the researches only observe their object of interest without changing or interfering in the outcome. <u>Experimental</u> <u>Studies</u> are the ones where the researchers introduce an interference and study their effect on the randomized groups.
Since this experiment is based on observation only, the study is an Observational Study.
d) Because it's an observational study, we can't correlate or associate the variables, since the researchers only obtain their results through observation of the behaviour of the students, without changing it.
