Question

For the following exercises, identify the type of data that would be used to describe a response (quantitative discrete, quantitative continuous, or qualitative), and give an example of the data.

14. distance to the closest movie theater
16. number of competing computer spreadsheet software packages

Answer 1

14: quantitative continuous

16: quantitative discrete

Explanation:

Distance can be any non-negative real number, hence it is continuous.

The number of packages has to be a positive integer, hence is discrete.