17. The florist industry is a big business. The producers of flowers are constantly looking for ways to increase and improve the flowering capacity of the plants
they raise and sell. A grower put together a special blend of fertilizers and
plant nutrients in hopes of increasing his blossom yield. He tested different
concentrations of this special blend on flowering plants to see which
concentration would produce the greatest number of blossoms per plant.
a. What is the independent variable?
b. What is the dependent variable?
c. List three possible constants.
d. What would the control in this experiment?