A company has three divisions and three conference rooms for meetings. To keep track of the use of their facilities, for each me
eting held in the company, the division holding the meeting is recorded, the name of the meeting room is recorded, and the length of time of the meeting is recorded. Which of the variables is quantitative and which is categorical?1. division 2. the length of the time
3. room
A categorical variable is a variable that takes an absolute or fixed value. It assigns numbers to a meaning. That is the numbers are allocated to particular groups or category. A data collected in a yes or no or either/or situations is are examples of categorical data
In the question, a member of staff is in either of the three categories and the meeting is held in either of the three meeting rooms.
Quantitative data is a data with a property that can have various values in terms of magnitude such as the length of time in the question, which can be 30 minutes or 1 hour.
