Princess Anna wants to determine which foods Sven prefers apples or carrots. She places two piles of food in Sven's stall each with 50 pieces. When she returns, she notices that Sven has eaten 40 carrots and 5 apples. a What is the independent variable? b. What is the dependent variable? c. What would be an appropriate conclusion? d. How could Princess Anna improve her experiment? 2. Princess Merida seems to notice that the "wisps" like water and dark areas of the forest. She spends the day on her horse traveling the kingdom collecting data to support her claim. The data is shown below: Dark forest Near water Number 22 14 of wisps a. What is the problem that Merida is trying to answer? b. What is the dependent variable? C . How could the experiment be made more valid? d. What should Merida tell her 3 brothers? (what is her conclusion?)