Question

20 students were asked “How many pets do you have in your household?” and the following data was collected:

2 1 0 3 1 2 1 3 4 0
0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
Select the type of the data ?
CHOOSE ONE PLEASE HELP

Discrete

Continuous

Categorical

Qualitative

Answer 1

Discrete

Discrete data represent items that can be counted; they take on possible values that can be listed out. The list of possible values may be fixed (also called finite); or it may go from 0, 1, 2, on to infinity (making it countably infinite).