It went from 10 to -2, so you need to find the difference. The way you'd do this is: 10 - (-2). Do you know how to subtract a negative number from a positive number?
Categorical data may or may not have some logical order
while the values of a quantitative variable can be ordered and
measured.
Categorical data examples are: race, sex, age group, and
educational level
Quantitative data examples are: heights of players on a
football team; number of cars in each row of a parking lot
a) Colors of phone cover - quantitative
b) Weight of different phones - quantitative
c) Types of dogs - categorical
d) Temperatures in the U.S. cities - quantitative
Let the number be n.
Then 3n+5 = n+40
Combining like terms, we get
2n = 35, and so n = 35/7, or 17 1/2.
