alleryStart learning →Data that cannot be written as numbers are called what?
AQuantitative data
BQualitative data
CContinuous data
DDiscrete data
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Qualitative data
1. Data are the pieces of information observed and recorded from an experiment or a survey.
2. Qualitative data are data that cannot be written as numbers.
3. The two common types of qualitative data are categorical data and anecdotal data.
4. Quantitative data are the opposite, since those are data that can be written as numbers.
_Source: Siyavula Mathematics Grade 10 (Everything Maths, CC BY 4.0), Chapter 10: Statistics_
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