Question

Please identify the types of variables among the choices below

Q1. Gender (male/female)

A. Quantitative

B. Ordinal

C. Nominal

Q2. Your height (in centimetres)

A. Nominal

B. Ordinal

C. Quantitative

Answer 1

SOLUTION::-

Q1) From the given data," GENDER(MALE/FEMALE)" is a NOMINAL type of variable.

Nominal variable::-It possess only the description characterstic which means it ppossesses unique labels to identify or delegate values to the items,when nominal scale is used for the purpose of identification.

In this type of variable all the objects in the category will have the same number and it is categorized or arrange objects in classes.

so according to the question .GENDER(male/female)---NOMINAL variable'

Q2)From the given data "HEIGHT(in centimeters)" is a "QUANTITATIVE VARIABLE"

Quantitative variable::-It is defined as a variable which is naturally measured as a number for which meaningful arithmetic operations.

so from the given question "your height(in centimeters)" comes under "QUANTITATIVE VARIABLE"