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Introductory Statistics

Found in: Page 12

Book edition OER 2018

Author(s) Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean

Pages 902 pages

ISBN 9781938168208

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Determine the correct data type (quantitative or qualitative) for the number of cars in a parking lot. Indicate whether quantitative data are continuous or discrete.

The number of cars in a parking lot are quantitative discrete data.

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To determine the type of data the number of cars in a parking lot represents:

The number of cars in a parking lot is a numerical data which is countable.

Thus , the number of cars in a parking lot are quantitative discrete data.

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