Question

s the data set “types of fruit at the grocery store” qualitative or quantitative? If it is quantitative, is it discrete or continuous?

Answer 1

discrete and quantitative is also correct so that makes it discrete

Answer 2

Quantitative and discrete

Explanation:

Given that the data set consists of types of fruit at the grocery stores. We can see that the types of fruits at the grocery stores is countable. i.e. we can have a one to one correspondence with type of fruits and natural numbers. Hence the variable is discrete.

It will in numerical numbers so it is quantitative.

Put together we can say that “types of fruit at the grocery store”

is a

i) quantitative variable

ii) discrete