Sean wants to know whether monarch butterflies prefer to feed from flowers of a certain color. Sean placed different colored lantana flower plants in separate 1-L terra cotta flower pots. He has a white lantana, purple lantana, orange lantana, yellow lantana, and red lantana. Sean set the pots on his back porch. He then observed the pots for four days and recorded how many visits each of the flower plants received from a monarch butterfly. What is the variable in Sean's experiment?

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anonymous · Answer

The colour of the flower, because variable means change. The thing that changes in this experiment is the colour of the flowers.