Let6
Systems of linear equations
<h1>Questionnaire</h1>
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<li><p><strong>State whether each of the following data is numerical or categorical:</strong></p>
(a)
<li>the colours of the cars in a showroom</li>
<li>the number of houses on your street</li>
<li>the types of animals on a farm</li>
<li>the blood groups of the students in your class</li>
<li>the number of countries in the EU</li>
<li>the different nationalities of Premier League soccer players.</li>
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<li><p><strong>Ella wants to buy a new computer.</strong>
She looks on the internet for information to answer the following questions.</p>
(b)
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<li>How much is a computer monitor?</li>
<li>In what colours are the monitors available?</li>
<li>What are the sizes of the monitors?</li>
<li>How big is the computer’s hard drive?
For each question, write down if the data required is numerical or categorical.</li>
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<li><p><strong>Louise spends her summer holiday working in a shop that hires out hats for weddings and other functions.</strong>
Give one example of </p>
(c)
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<li>numerical data</li>
<li>categorical data that could associated with hats.</li>
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<li><p><strong>State whether each of the following results is numerical or categorical data.</strong></p>
(d)
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<li>Standing at a supermarket exit door and asking the customers what they thought of the service they had received.</li>
<li>Checking Garda records to find the number of road-traffic accidents that occurred during the past month.</li>
<li>Counting the number of cars that turn left at a particular junction.</li>
<li>Checking the internet to find the most popular cars.</li>
<li>Asking all the students in your class to give the numbers of sisters and brothers they have.</li>
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(e)
<li><p><strong>Daniel wrote down the numbers of minutes his phone calls lasted.</strong>
1, 6, 10, 3, 1, 24, 25, 30, 36, 17, 19, 11, 16, 18, 4, 3, 7, 2, 1, 4, 17, 19, 23, 26</p>
<p>Make a copy of this data collection sheet. Fill it in.
What percentage of calls lasted between 11 and 20 minutes inclusive?</p></li>
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