me, fast
answer the following questions to explain how you would☝️
1) how many dots would you use? why?
2) what number(s) would the dot(s) be on?
3) would they be open or closed dots? how do you know?
4) where would you shade on the number line? how do you know?

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.