Question

Information provided by the World Meteorological Association revealed following data on the highest recorded temperature for each continent.

a. What type of data is presented in the first column of the table ?

b. What type of data is presented in the second column of the table ?

c. What type of data is presented in the third column of the table ?

d. What type of data is provided by the information that Death Valley is in the United States?

Short answer

1st column : Quantitative Ordinal Variable

2nd column : Qualitative Categorical Variable

3rd column : Qualitative Categorical Variable

Death Valley Location : Qualitative Categorical Variable

4th column : Quantitative Continuous Variable

Step-by-step solution

Basics

• Quantitative variables can be measured in terms of numerical units.

Ordinal variables are in form of ranks - 1st, 2nd, 3rd & so on

Continuous variable can be in form of whole & non whole numbers - can take values like 4.8, 10.5 etc

• Qualitative variables can't be measured in terms of numerical units.

Categorical variables can take only few options or categories, like gender 'male' or 'female'

Explanation

1st column depicts respective ranks of continents, it is Quantitative Ordinal Variable

2nd column depicts names of continents, it is Qualitative Categorical Variable

3rd column depicts places' names, it is Qualitative Categorical Variable

4th column depicts temperature that can be decimals also, it is Quantitative Continuous Variable

Death Valley location also specifies place category, so it is Qualitative Categorical Variable