Question

Determine a freshman's likely first-year grade point average from the student's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score, high school grade point average, and number of extra-curricular activities. This is an example of:________

a. estimation of a continuous outcome.
b. unsupervised learning.
c. classification of a categorical outcome.
d. prediction of a categorical outcome.

Answer 1

D) Prediction of a categorical outcome

Step-by-step explanation:

Prediction problems involves determining an unknown value from known variables otherwise called predictor variables. In this case the problem is to tell the likely grade outcome of a freshman having known his scores in SAT and high school grade points