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You boil a kettle of water. Once the water has reached boiling point, you turn off the kettle and you measure the temperature of the water at time intervals of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 minutes from when it reached boiling point. You plot a graph of the temperature of the water vs the time since the water boiled. What is your "independent" variable?