A.
Two researchers conducted a study about “personality, intelligence and
approaches to learning as predictors of academic performance.” They
investigated the extent to which personality, ability and learning approaches
predict academic performance. they gathered data from randomly select 150 out
of 500 college students of a university. These students belonged to varied ages,
year levels, and courses.
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INDEPENDENT Personality, intelligence & approaches to learning
DEPENDENT Academic Performance
CATEGORICAL yr levels & courses
NUMERICAL Ages
SAMPLE 150 college students
POPULATION 500 college students
B. In order to raise funds for the upcoming University Days, the university
student counselors promote and sell tee-shirts to students of the schools of
arts and sciences, business and accountancy, education, engineering and
architecture, hospitality and travel management among others. Tee shirts
are in XS, S, M, L, XL, and XXL; and in colors of white, black, gray, and
maroon. White shirts are priced @ Php250 and color shirts @ Php300.
Determine the type of variables (categorical, discrete, or continuous) and
data scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) of the following
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COLORS PRICES SCHOOLS SIZE
white P250.00 Arts & Sci xs
black P300.00 Bus. & Acty s
gray P300.00 Education m
maroon P300.00 Eng. & Archi l
HTM xl
xxl
TYPE OF VARIABLES categorical continuous categorical continuous
DATA SCALE nominal ratio nominal ordinal
Tablet PC Comparison provides a wide variety of information about tablet computers. Their website enables consumers to
easily compare different tablets using factors such as cost, type of operating system, display, size, battery life, and CPU
manufacturers. A sample of 10 tablet computers is shown below:
TABLET COST($) OPER. SYSTEM DISPLAY SIZE BAT. LIFE (hrs) CPU MFTURER
Acer Iconia 599 Windows 10.1 8.5 Intel
Amazon Kindle 299 Android 8.9 9 TI Omap
Apple iPad 4 499 iOS 9.7 11 Apple
HP Envy 860 Windows 11.6 8 Intel
Lenovo Think 668 Windows 10.1 10.5 Intel
MS Surface 899 Windows 10.6 4 Intel
Motorola Droid 530 Android 10.1 9 TI Omap
Samsung Ativ 590 Windows 11.6 7 Intel
Samsung Tab 525 Android 10.1 10 Nvidia
Sony Tab 8 360 Android 9.4 8 Nvidia
[Link] many elements are in this data set? 10 tablets
[Link] many variables are in this data set? 5 variables
[Link] variables are categorical and which variables are quantitative?
Oper. System & CPU Manufacturers are categorical and cost, display
size and bat. Life - quantitative
[Link] type of measurement of scale is used for each of the variable?
Nominal interval & ratio scale
[Link] is average cost for the tablets?
599+299+499+860+668+899+530+590+525+360 / 10 = 582.90