You want to find out if a neighborhood watch program is effective in your neighborhood. You gather statistics on the number of burglaries there are in a 2 mile radius of your neighborhood before you launch the program and again six months after the launch of the program to see if there is a change in the number of burglaries. In this example, what is your independent variable?

Group of answer choices

Neighborhood

Burglaries

The mile radius

Neighborhood watch program