SOLUTION: Is a person height in inches numerical or categorical: I believe it’s numerical Class room number in a science building : I believe it’s categorical Hairs on a persons he

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Question 1162041: Is a person height in inches numerical or categorical: I believe it’s numerical
Class room number in a science building : I believe it’s categorical
Hairs on a persons head discrete or continuous
Temperature Fahrenheit of a cup of coffee

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Quantitative or numerical data are numbers, and that way they 'impose' an order. Examples are age, height, weight.
so, a person height in inches is
Since hairs are something we can count, this is a discrete random variable.
so, hairs on a persons head is
Temperature Fahrenheit of a cup of coffee is (continuous variables can have an infinite number of possible values)

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