Question

In a pond, 300 geese are present. 5% of the geese are lighter colored. Is this numerical or categorical data

Answer 1

Solution:

Here we have given that in a pond 300 geese are present.And 5% of these are lighter coloured.

We have given the count of geese.Also we have given a percentage of characteristic .Since colour is a characteristic variable which reprents a category

Also from given information we cannot do any numerical opertions such as mean ,median and standard deviation.We can only take prportion of lighter coloured geese.

Hence the given information is cetegorical.