GI Designs,a copper furniture manufacturer,increased the price on its copper tabletops by 20 percent for three months to see what the effect would be on its sales.The change in sales is the ________ in this three-month experiment.

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An experiment involves obtaining data by manipulating factors under tightly controlled conditions to test cause and effect.The interest is in whether changing one of the independent variables (a cause)will change the behavior of the dependent variable that is studied (the result).The price increase was the causal condition (independent variable)that was manipulated by the experimenter to see if there would be a change in sales (dependent variable).

GI Designs,a Copper Furniture Manufacturer,increased the Price on Its Copper