Which of the Following Is an Example of Continuous Data

question 52

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of continuous data?

• A) Family income
• B) Number of students in a statistics class
• C) Postal codes of shoppers
• D) Rankings of baseball teams in a league

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Definitions:

Trend Line

A line drawn on a graph that shows the general direction in which a group of points seem to be moving.

Histogram

A graphical display of a frequency distribution, relative frequency distribution, or percent frequency distribution of quantitative data constructed by placing the class intervals on the horizontal axis and the frequencies, relative frequencies, or percent frequencies on the vertical axis.

Frequency Distribution

A summary showing how often different values occur in a dataset, typically presented in a table or graph.

Relative Frequency

The ratio of the number of times a particular value occurs in a set of data to the total number of observations.