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Chapter 1: Q 10. (page 8)

Multiple Choice Select the best answer.

Exercises 9 and 10 refer to the following setting. At the Census Bureau website www.census.gov, you can view detailed data collected by the American Community Survey.

The following table includes data for 10 people chosen at random from the more than 1 million people in households contacted by the survey. “School” gives the highest level of education completed.

This data set contains

(a) 7 variables, 2 of which are categorical.

(b) 7 variables, 1 of which is categorical.

(c) 6 variables, 2 of which are categorical.

(d) 6 variables, 1 of which is categorical.

(e) None of these.

Short Answer

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Option (c) 6 variables, 2 of which are categorical is correct.

Step by step solution

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Step 1. Given information.

The given statement is:

The given table contains data for ten persons picked at random from the survey's more than 1 million household contacts.

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Step 2. Choose the most appropriate response.

First, we have to identify the variables:

We can observe from the table that the variables include Weight, Age, Travel to Work, School, Gender, and Income last year.

In total, they are 6.

Now classify them as categorical or quantitative:

Weight, Age, Gender, and Income last year are quantitative variables.

Travel to Work, and School are categorical variables.


Therefore option (c) is correct.

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