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This chapter is from Introduction to Statistics for Community College Students, 1st Edition, by Matt Teachout, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA, USA, and is licensed

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Practice Problems Section 1A 1. The following spreadsheet can be found on the website www.matt-teachout.org. Just click on the “statistics” tab and then “data sets”. This data was taken from bears. Use the bear data to classify each column of data as categorical or quantitative. If the data is quantitative, what are the units? If the data is categorical, indicate how many different options there are in that category.

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This chapter is from Introduction to Statistics for Community College Students, 1st Edition, by Matt Teachout, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA, USA, and is licensed

under a “CC-By” Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license – 10/1/18

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2. The following spreadsheet can be found on the website www.matt-teachout.org. Just click on the “statistics” tab and then “data sets”. This data was taken from various cereals. Use the cereal data to classify each column of data as categorical or quantitative. If the data is quantitative, what are the units? If the data is categorical, indicate how many different options there are in that category.

3. Determine if the each of the following variables are quantitative or categorical.

a) The number of milligrams of Aspirin given to heart attack patients. b) The various types of cars being sold at a used car lot. c) Determining if a person smokes marijuana or not. d) The number of bicycles sold at various bicycle stores in Seattle, WA. e) The types of birds observed in Florida. f) The number of grams of gold found in various streams across northern California. g) The various types of cardio classes offered at gyms across Los Angeles, CA. h) The number of cardio classes offered at gyms across Los Angeles, CA. i) The city a person lives in. j) The amount of money in peoples’ bank accounts. k) The various zip codes from addresses at a post office. l) The drivers’ l icense numbers from various taxi drivers. m) The number of taxis driven in New York City on various days of the week.

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Practice Problems Section 1A