Question

Mary has cleaned her data and is ready to determine the most efficient bus route. She starts by splitting the city into four regions on a map, then she uses a computer program to sort her data into four different groups according to the regions. This way she can examine how many students use the bus in each region of the city.

Mary starts prioritizing bus routes based on regions, but one of her fellow administrators suggests that she use her computer program to sort her data a different way first. Why might this be useful?
A
Transforming the data is a way of checking that no data is missing, and will result in a better analysis.
B
Transforming the data might help Mary notice a different pattern that makes a bigger impact on bus routes than regions of the city.
C
Transforming the data will confirm that the computer program is sorting the data correctly.
D
It is not useful; Mary has already identified a pattern and does not need to transform her data.

Answer 1

B.

Transforming the data might help Mary notice a different pattern that makes a bigger impact on bus routes than regions of the City.

Step-by-step explanation:

Mary can check if there are other things or factors that might influence where the bus routes need to be prioritized. For example if the students' age is considered for the bus routes instead of regions. She can achieve this by

By Re-sorting or Transforming the data.

That is to say she will be able to find out if it is only region or if there are different patterns that makes bigger impacts on bus routes, by transforming the data.