Maths 8, Types of data

Janet wants to learn information about hair colours

• categorical data

• discrete data

• continuous data

Jason wants to find how many siblings Janet has.

• discrete data

• continuous data

• categorical data

Janet wants to find how fast Jason can solve a Rubik's cube.

• categorical data

• continuous data

• discrete data

Chidi wants to gather some data one people's favourite food. He decides to use a survey he found online that was conducted 10 years earlier where 200 people were asked if their favourite food was Italian, Chinses, Indian, or Thai.

• categorical data

• continuous data

• discrete data

• primary data

• secondary data

The heights of 12 dogs

• categorical data

• continuous data

• discrete data

The lengths of 15 snakes

• continuous data

• categorical data

• discrete data

The eye colours of students in a class.

• categorical data

• continuous data

• discrete data

The number of goals scored by members of the school's football team.

• discrete data

• continuous data

• categorical data

Eleanor is measuring the length of everyone in her class' hair

• primary data

• secondary data

• continuous data

• discrete data

• continuous data

People's shoe sizes.

• discrete data

• continuous data

• categorical data