Level of measurement, Class intervals
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1. What is the level of measurement for these items related to the newspaper business?
a.) The number of papers sold each Sunday during 2004
b.) The departments, such as editorial, advertising, sports, etc.
c.) A summary of the number of papers for each employee.
d.) The number of years with the paper for each employee.
2.
The following data gives the weekly amounts spent on groceries for sample of households.
$271 $363 $159 $76 $227 $337 $295 $319 $250
279 205 279 266 199 177 162 232 303
192 181 321 309 246 278 50 41 335
116 100 151 240 474 297 170 188 320
429 294 570 342 279 235 434 123 325
a. How many classes would you recommend?
b. What class interval would you suggest?
c. What would you recommend as the lower limit of the first class?
d. Organize the data into a frequency distribution.
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Two questions have been answered:
1) level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) is identified for items related to the newspaper business.
2) class intervals are identified for data on the weekly amounts spent on groceries for sample of households.
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