Research Application Assignment 1 Imagine you were interested in studying factors that influence government spending on education in US states. You suspect that a state's average income per capita influences spending on education within the state. 1. What is the dependent variable in your analysis? 2. What is the independent variable in your analysis? 3. How do you expect the independent variable to influence the dependent variable (i.e. positive or negative effect)? (There is no right or wrong answer here as long as you give a good explanation as to why in Question 4.) 4. Why do you expect the independent variable to influence the dependent variable that way? Your answer should be at least one paragraph long. 5. Write a hypothesis that predicts the relationship between the independent and dependent variable based on your answer to Question 4