"Determine whether the data are qualitative or quantitative. E...

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"Determine whether the data are qualitative or quantitative. Explain your reasoning.

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Hello there. Today we're going to solve the following practice problem together. So first off, let us read the problem and highlight all the key pieces of information that we need to use in order to solve this problem. Determine whether the data are qualitative or quantitative. Explain your reasoning. Types of cuisine served at restaurants. Awesome. So it appears for this particular prom we're asked to take our statement, which is types of cuisine served at restaurants, and we're asked to determine whether the data is considered qualitative or quantitative and to explain our reasoning. So with that in mind, now that we know what we're trying to solve, we're let's read off our multiple choice answers to see what our final answer might be. A is qualitative. B is quantitative, C is both of these, and D is none of these. Awesome. So, focusing our attention on our statement that we are trying to solve for, which is the types of cuisines served at restaurants, we need to first, in order to solve this problem, we need to identify, so once again, we're trying to identify the type of data for types of cuisine served at restaurants. So our second step now is, let us consider what is considered a type of cuisine served at restaurants. So types of cuisine could be Italian food, Chinese food, or Mexican food, but most importantly, it's important to note that the types of cuisine is considered a category, not a number. And because these are considered categories and not numbers, that is very important that we need to consider. And since the data represents categories or qualities, so this is our third step now, since once again we determined that types of cuisine are considered categories, and once again, since the data represents categories or qualities, they are qualitative. And that will mean our 4th and final step we need to recall that qualitative data describes attributes or characteristics, not measurable quantities. So with that in mind, our final answer without a doubt will have to be multiple choice answer letter A, which is qualitative, and that is our final answer. Thank you so much for watching. Hopefully that helped and I can't wait to see you in the next video. Bye.

"Determine whether the data are qualitative or quantitative. Explain your reasoning.
Distances of track events"

Key Concepts

Qualitative Data

Quantitative Data

Data Classification

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