Kara worked in the produce department of a grocery store in the afternoons. She wondered how much the ripeness of bananas affected the sale of the fruit. She collected data for 10 days on the total number of pounds of bananas sold of green, yellow, and brown-black bananas. What is the independent variable in her experiment?

A. Type of people who buy different bananas
B. Amount of bananas sold
C. Ripeness of bananas
D. The number of days the data was collected


Ans: C. Ripeness of bananas

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