Aresearcher employs an iv × pv design to examine attitudes toward cheating. she presents freshmen from a private university with a written account describing a male or female student who was accused of cheating on an exam. the same procedure is repeated for a sample of freshmen from a public university. after reading the account, the students were asked to assign an appropriate punishment. the pv in this design would be the:

The type of university attended

Explanation:

The punishment would be extremely different depending on the type of university attended, it would be a much worse punishment for the public university student because they do not have the privilege that a private university offers, they are way more softer regarding the student's behavior.

the rebels’ chances of victory at lexington & concord were fairly slim, given the fact that most of them very untrained and they were up against the world's greatest military force.  

tbh idk same thing here