Fun Inc. has a corporate fun day every year (except this one) which features an obstacle course where contestants race from point to point picking up difficult to hold objects and try to get to the...

Extracted text: Fun Inc. has a corporate fun day every year (except this one) which features an obstacle course where contestants race from point to point picking up difficult to hold objects and try to get to the finish line first. The average time it takes to run between the course pickup points is 2.15 minutes with a standard deviation of .85 minutes. The course is carefully setup so that each pick up point averages 25 yards from the last pickup point, but there is a standard deviation of 2 yards. The correlation between race time and pickup distance = .746 What is the independent variable? number of pickup points distance either time, distance, or number of pickup points time