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A student conducted an experiment to test whether talking to plants would help them to grow faster. He set up the following two groups: Group 1: spoken to and hand watered Group 2: not spoken to and hand watered After three weeks, the plants in Group 1 showed much more growth than those in Group 2.

Name the independent and dependent variable.

AGAIN I WANT THE ANSWER TO THE INDEPENDENT AND THE DEPENDANT VARIABLE!