How to identify the independent and dependent variable?

Acollection of coins has value of 64 cents. there are two more nickels than dimes and three times as many pennies as dimes in this collection. how many of each kind of coin are in the collection?

Complete this sentence with the best of choices given

Consider u = {x|x is a negative real number}which is an empty set? o {x|x eu and x has a negative cube root}o {x|x eu and x has a negative square root}{x|x eu and x is equal to the product of a positive number and -1}{x|x eu and x is equal to the sum of one negative and one positive number?