Ireally need captain ahab decides to build a boat with a flat,
rectangular bottom. he tests the boat's load capacity by
getting each of his sailors to enter the boat, one at a time.
as each sailor enters the boat he records the total mass
in the boat and the total distance it has sunk as a result of
the sailors in the boat. the data that follows indicates
the total mass of the sailors and the total distance sunk.
total total
mass distance
(kg) (cm)
0 0.0
51 5.0
113 11.1
183 17.9
251 24.6
332 32.5
407 39.8
466 45.5
a. what is the independent variable for this
experiment? how do you know?
b. what is the dependent variable for this experiment?
how do you know?
c. on a separate piece of paper, make a proper data
table.
d. on a piece of graph paper, make a proper graph of these data.