document.write( "Question 979977: Lucy is a member of a tennis club. She pays an annual membership fee and an amount for each game played. She wantsaid to see the relationship between the number of games played and total costs.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Whatever you define them to mean. Generally,

is the independent variable and

is the dependent variable, and you have an equation that shows

depending on the value of

. But \"the relationship between thing 1 and thing 2\" does not give us a clue about the desired dependency relationship. Had the question read something like: \"she wants to see a relationship that gives total cost as a function of the number of games played\" then you would be able to say, following convention, that

represents the number of games played and

represents the total cost. However, your instructor cannot, in good conscience, tell you you are wrong whichever way you answer this question given the way the question was posed.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it\r
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