J.D. Power and Associates surveys new automobile owners to learn about the quality of recently purchased vehicles. The following
questions were asked in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey, May 2012? a. Did you purchase or lease the vehicle?
b. What price did you pay?
c. What is the overall attractiveness of your vehicle's exterior? (Unacceptable, Average,
Outstanding, or Truly Exceptional)
d. What is your average miles-per-gallon?
e. What is your overall rating of your new vehicle? (l- to 10-point scale with 1 Unacceptable and 10 Truly Exceptional)
Comment on whether each question provides categorical or quantitative data.
a. Did you purchase or lease the vehicle? CATEGORICAL DATA
b. What price did you pay? QUANTITATIVE DATA
c. What is the overall attractiveness of your vehicle's exterior? (Unacceptable, Average, Outstanding, or Truly Exceptional) CATEGORICAL DATA
d. What is your average miles-per-gallon? QUANTITATIVE DATA
e. What is your overall rating of your new vehicle? (l- to 10-point scale with 1 Unacceptable and 10 Truly Exceptional) QUANTITATIVE DATA
Explanation:
Quantitative data can be measured in numbers, e.g. 20 miles per gallon. While categorical data refers to non-numerical responses, e.g. higher quality, better looks, and is generally obtained by choosing one response from a group of available answers.
Raw materials is an asset account with a debit balance, and since we must decrease it, we have to credit the amounts. Work in progress (WIP) inventory is an asset account so it has a debit balance.
Steel was important to the second industrial revolution majorly because of its properties and its potential uses. Because steel is very strong, light and cheap, it was found ideal for many purposes. Steel was used to make many of the new inventions that characterized that period, a good example of this is rail road.
