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Classify the following variables as quantitative or qualitative variables. If the variable is quantitative, identify whether it is discrete or continuous.The length of telephone calls made by students to their parents

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A quantitative variable is the one who has a numerical significance such as number of items, time spent on playing a video game while a qualitative variable is the one who has not a numerical significance attached to it such as Gender , Eye color.

Further in quantitative variable , discrete variable is the one which is a whole number and can not be broken down further , like number of items

while a continuous variable is the one which takes any value within an interval of values like between 1 and 2 , continuous variable can take any value like 1.21, 1.55556, 1.994 etc.

The length of phone calls look like 20 min, 20.85 min , 0.25 sec etc (having a numerical significance but not representing discrete data).

The variable is quantitative. Further the data is Continuous

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