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Chapter 1: Q. 5 (page 7)

Ranking colleges Popular magazines rank colleges and universities on their 鈥渁cademic quality鈥� in serving undergraduate students. Describe two categorical variables and two quantitative variables that you might record for each student. Give the units of measurement for the quantitative variables.

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The quantitative variables are based on numerical values and the categorical values have a certain category.

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Step 1:Description of Quantitative variables

The quantitative variables deal with the statistics of the passing students in the university.

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Step 2:The description of categorical variables

It also deals with the special categories of a certain individual such as race, height and colour.

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