Question

A cooler contains eleven bottles of sports drink: four lemon lime flavored and seven orange flavoured. You randomly grab a bottle and give it to a friend. Then, you randomly grab a bottle for yourself. Your friends gets lemon lime and you get an orange.

Is it dependent or independent?

Answer 1

its a dependent variable.
  in independent variable is something being changed in an experiment to test the effects on the dependent variable.  the dependent variable is what is being tested.