Question

Question 2: A researcher plans to examine what butterfly species are present in one acre of prairie land in Alberta, Canada. The data will be collected as a list of the Latin name for the species. This data can be considered: * qualitative nominal qualitative ordinal quantitative discrete quantitative continuous

Answer 1

Answer:

qualitative nominal

Step-by-step explanation:

The data collected while examining the species of butterflies present in a particular area which are represented using Latin names is a non-numeric data type is aimed at separating or making distinction among the species available. These types of data used in classification are called Qualitative variables.

Also, the data is nominal and not ordinal, this is because there is no sort of order or ranking in the groups or species names. Qualitative variables in which does not posses ordering or ranking in the categories are represented on the nominal scale. Whose which implies order or rank are represented on the ordinal scale.