Homework: Chapter 4 Question 1, Instructor. HW Score: 0%, 0 0t 48 points Homework created question 0 Points: 0 of 3 Executives at a large multinational corporation want to be able to predict the average number of sick days taken per year by employees with a given number of months of experience. Data on sick days taken per year and months of experience were collected for a sample of employees. Complete parts a through c below. E> a) Which variable is the independent (explanatory) variable? 0 A. The independent variable is sick days taken per year because the executives want to know how months of experience depends on sick days taken per year. 0 B. The independent variable is months of experience because the executives want to know how months of experience depends on sick days taken per year. 0 c. The independent variable is months of experience because the executives want to know how sick days taken per year depends on months of experience 0 D. The independent variable is sick days taken per year because the executives want to know how sick days taken per year depends on months of experience b) Which variable is the dependent (response) variable? 0 A. The dependent variable is months of experience because the executives want to know how sick days taken per year depends on months of experience 0 B. The dependent variable is months of experience because the executives want to know how months of experience depends on sick days taken per year. 0 c. The dependent variable is sick days taken per year because the executives want to know how sick days taken per year depends on months of experience 0 D. The dependent variable is sick days taken per year because the executives want to know how months of experience depends on sick days taken per year. c) Which variable would you plot on the y-axis? Ask my instructor Clear all % m-.. -..,.. ._....... I.-. J-..\" c) Which variable would you plot on the y-axis? O A. Since sick days taken per year is the dependent variable, it should be plotted on the y-axis. O B. Since sick days taken per year is the independent variable, it should be plotted on the y-axis. O C. Since months of experience is the dependent variable, it should be plotted on the y-axis. O D. Since months of experience is the imdependent variable, it should be plotted on the yaxis