A. Complete the chart based on the initial conditions:

An ant population starts at 1200 for a certain colony. As each month goes by in the winter, 6.5% of the population dies off. How many of the ants should be alive after 4 months? (Round to the whole ant.)

Month Ant Population
(start) 1200
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B. Consider the following table that describes the mass of a kitten as weeks go by. If you know the kitten grows by 10% each week for the first 5 weeks, fill in the table for the values each week.

Week Mass (grams)
(start) 80
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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?