Marjorie's little brother tends to bother her when he is bored. Marjorie wants to figure out which toy will keep her brother occupied the longest so he will not bother her. She conduct a study where each day at 6 PM for a week she gives her brother a different toy and on one of the days she gives him no toys to play with. She measures amount of time he spends playing with each toy before he comes to bother her. Which of the following is the independent variable in this example?

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