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Chapter 1: Q. 5 (page 7)

Ranking colleges Popular magazines rank colleges and universities on their “academic quality” in serving undergraduate students. Describe two categorical variables and two quantitative variables that you might record for each student. Give the units of measurement for the quantitative variables.

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The quantitative variables are based on numerical values and the categorical values have a certain category.

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Step 1:Description of Quantitative variables

The quantitative variables deal with the statistics of the passing students in the university.

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Step 2:The description of categorical variables

It also deals with the special categories of a certain individual such as race, height and colour.

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