Qualitative or Quantitative
Types of Quantitative Data
100

True or false? 

Qualitative data uses words to describe the information.

True!

100

True or False?

To find Discrete Data, you have to be able to measure it.

False!

Discrete data are things that can be counted.

200

Qualitative or Quantitative?

Ms. M only won tic-tac-toe 1 time, and Mrs. Hunter won 2 times.

Quantitative!


We used numbers, so the data is quantitative.

200

Continuous or Discrete Data?

The classrooms in the school are all different sizes.

Continuous!

We would have to measure the classrooms to find out they're different sizes.

300

Qualitative or Quantitative?

All the desks in the class are stained with marker, but they used to be white.

Qualitative!

The information about the desks is described in words.

300

Continuous or Discrete Data?

The number of students away on Friday for a hockey tournament?

Discrete!


To collect the data, you would have to count the number of students.

400

Qualitative or Quantitative?

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Quantitative!

The graph uses whole numbers to measure the number of hours students spent doing homework!

400

Discrete or Continuous Data?

A zookeeper is tracking how many baby animals are born in each enclosure during the spring.

Discrete!

The zookeeper would have to count the number of baby animals that are born.

500

Qualitative or Quantitative?

A group of 30 students were asked to list their favourite type of music. The most common answer was 'pop music', and the least common was 'classical.'

Qualitative!

We don't know how many students voted for each category and the results are described in words.

500

Discrete vs. Continuous Data

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Continuous Data!

Both the height of the jump and the time it takes the horse to jump it have to be measured.

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