The Bureau of Economic Analysis collects data on US adults including personal in

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The Bureau of Economic Analysis collects data on US adults including personal income, industry in which they work, personal consumption expenditures, zip code. Which data is categorical? Click II that apply. a. industry in which they work b. zip code c. personal consumption expenditures d. personal income If we want to discuss any gaps and clusters in a data set, which o the following should not be chosen to display the data set? stem-and-leaf plot dotplot boxplot histogram A statistics minded person has kept records genres of American movies produced each year. If she wants to examine the percentage of comedy, drama, action, romantic movies during the last year, which kind of graph could she make? a. pie chart b. boxplot c. time plot d. dotplot e. histogram

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1) Values or observations that can be sorted into groups or categories. Examples: Sex, Eye colour and Favourite colour. Bar charts and pie graphs are used to graph categorical data. Numerical. Values or observations that can be measured.

Some variables, such as social security numbers and zip codes, take numerical values, but are not quantitative: They are qualitative or categorical variables. The sum of two zip codes or social security numbers is not meaningful. The average of a list of zip codes is not meaningful.

So, a option and b option are categorical.

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