Categorical and Quantitative Variables

Classify each type of data as quantitative or categorical.

People's hair colors

• Quantitative Data

• Categorical Data

Classify each type of data as quantitative or categorical.

Heights of bridges

• Quantitative Data

• Categorical Data

Classify each type of data as quantitative or categorical.

Times taken for athletes to run 100 meters

• Quantitative Data

• Categorical Data

Classify each type of data as quantitative or categorical.

Countries where cars are manufactured

• Quantitative Data

• Categorical Data

Identify if the data should be measured by a categorical variable or a quantitative variable:

A fitness trainer wants to determine a target race time for her trainee to set as a goal.

• categorical

• quantitative

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

What are characteristics that cannot be defined by a number, such as shape or color?

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• categorical variables

• numerical variables

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

• Algebra

• Geometry

• Probability

• Statistics

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.