Cindy Ho, VP of Finance at Discrete Components, Inc.(DCI), theorizes that the discount rate offered to credit customers affects the average collection period on credit sales.Accordingly, she has designed an experiment to test her theory using four sales discount rates (0%, 2%, 4%, and 6%)by randomly assigning five customers to each sales discount rate.In Cindy's experiment, "sales discount rate" is ______.
A)the dependent variable
B)a treatment variable
C)a blocking variable
D)a concomitant variable
E)a constant

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The "sales discount rate" in Cindy's experiment is a treatment variable because it is the variable that is being manipulated or changed to observe its effect on the average collection period, which is the outcome or dependent variable.