Joe earned $400 doing yard work this week. He charged $20 to mow a lawn and $10 to weed a garden. The equation 20m + 10w = 400 represents how much work Joe did this week, where m is the number of lawns Joe mowed and w is the number of gardens he weeded.

Which variable is the independent variable?

A.m
B.w
C.There is no relationship between the variables.

Question

Joe earned $400 doing yard work this week. He charged $20 to mow a lawn and $10 to weed a garden. The equation 20m + 10w = 400 represents how much work Joe did this week, where m is the number of lawns Joe mowed and w is the number of gardens he weeded. 

Which variable is the independent variable?
 
 A.m
 B.w
 C.There is no relationship between the variables.

anonymous · Answer

Independent variable: a variable (often denoted by x ) whose variation does not depend on that of another.

anonymous · Answer

Is there any relationship between weeding and mowing?

anonymous · Answer

no i don't think so

anonymous · Answer

I don't think there is a relationship between them either,so what would your answer be?

anonymous · Answer

c

anonymous · Answer

Correct(: