Questions of Categorical and Quantitative Variables

Choose the correct term that:

Is measurable

Represents objects or individuals by numbers assigned to certain measurable properties like age or length

Measurements such as time, height, temperature, and weight or numbers such as the number of teeth lost by first graders or ages of elementary school students

• Quantitative Data

• Categorical Data

Choose the correct term that:

Represents characteristics such as gender. eye color, types of movies, or genres of books.

Can be grouped into categories.

Represents individuals or objects that share one or more traits.

• Quantitative Data

• Categorical Data

Is the information collected during the survey numerical or categorical data?

• Numerical data. I know this because the y-axis is labeled with numbers. 

• Numerical data. I know this because the surveyor counted how many people that they surveyed. 

• Categorical data. I know this because the responses to the survey are names. 

• Categorical data. I know this because each column is a different color. 

What type of Data are we collecting when asking: "Where were you born?"

• Categorical Data

• Quantitative Data

What type of Data are we collecting when asking: "How much does your backpack weigh?"

• Categorical Data

• Quantitative Data

How many glasses of water do you drink during an average day?

• Categorical

• Quantitative

What is the branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data?

• Algebra

• Geometry

• Probability

• Statistics

What is the word in statistics for any characteristic or attribute of a person, place, or thing?

• variable

• descriptive statistic

• inferential statistic

• parameter

What are characteristics that are defined by a number, such as age or weight?

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• categorical variables

• numerical variables