Graphing Bakery Production
A bakery manager wants to create a two-dimensional graph to show the relationship between the number of bakers they employ (which can change daily) and the total number of bread loaves produced. The number of ovens is fixed. Describe which variable should be placed on the horizontal axis and which should be placed on the vertical axis to correctly represent this production relationship, and briefly explain why.
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