Michael wants to find the length of the shadow of a tree. he measures the height of a fencepost and the length of the shadow it casts. the fencepost is 3.5 feet tall, and its shadow is 10.5 feet long. next, michael measures the height of the tree, and finds it is 6 feet tall. how long is the shadow of the tree?

Stu and ambrose are working together on a study of whether diet is related to students' mental health. first, they randomly select 10 students from the student center and 10 students from the office of counseling and psychological services. then, they ask students to rate their diet in terms of healthiness on a scale of 1-100 before completing a 20-item mental health survey. a) name one of the constructs being studied b) how was the construct you named above operationally defined in this experiment? e) was the variable you described above their independent variable, their dependent variable, or a controlled variable? d) what is a confounding variable? what is a potential confound in this study?