Question

1.what type of variable is the number of hospitalizations reported at a university

2. what type of variable is the number of gallons of gas pumped by a filling station during the day?

attribute, qualitative, continous or quantatative?

Answer 1

1 Quantitative variable.

Variables that have are measured on a numeric or quantitative scale is Quantitative variable.

Number of hospitalizations at a university has to be a numeric quantity.This variable takes values as numbers, it maybe 0 or 1 or 2 or......

2.Continuous Quantitative variable.

Quantitative variables can be further classified as discrete or continuous. If a variable can take on any value between its minimum value and its maximum value, it is called a continuous variable; otherwise, it is called a discrete variable.

Number of gallons of gas can be any value between the maximum and minimum value to be pumped by fixing station.

Note, variable in Q1. is a discrete variable.

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