If you want to increase the amount of monthly savings in your budget, which of the following methods would reasonably be the
most effective?
a. keep "essential expenses (fixed)" the same amount every time the budget is revised.
b. determine a "non-essential expense", or any other expense, that can be reduced.
c. pay bills as late as possible, in order to increase the amount of cash available.
d. use only money from the emergency savings for unexpected expenses.

Ascientist studied a population of workers to determine whether verbal praise and/or tangible rewards affect employee productivity. in the study, some workers were offered verbal praise, some were offered tangible rewards (gift cards, presents, and some were offered neither. the productivity of each participant was measured throughout the study by recording the number of daily tasks completed by each employee. which inference might the scientists make based on the given information? a.) the number of daily tasks completed by each employee may influence the dependent variable, which is whether the employee receives verbal praise, tangible rewards, or neither. b.) verbal praise and/or tangible rewards may influence the independent variable, which is the number of daily tasks completed by each employee. c.) verbal praise and/or tangible rewards may influence the dependent variable, which is the number of daily tasks completed by each employee. d.) the dependent variables, which are verbal praise and tangible rewards, may influence the number of daily tasks completed by each employee.