One day, Birju, who stays at Ramnagar, travels by bus to Laxmanpur while his brother Lakha takes a bus from Ramnagar to Sitapur. The bus to Laxmanpur takes 3 hours for the journey and the bus to Sitapur takes 2 hours. Which bus is faster and by how much?

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.