HELP ASAP Drive Down is a racing video game. The game gives each player an initial amount of $5,000 in virtual money. After that, a player gets $500
in virtual money for each race won. What function represents the amount of virtual money a player has in terms of the number of races
won?
The independent quantity is and the dependent quantity is the . The function representing the situation is .

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.