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    hey
    can some confirm if my answers to this question is correct? thanks

    Classify the following variables as either quantitative or qualitative, and as discrete, continuous, ordered, or unordered.

    a) Number of books in a library: Quantitative - Discrete Variable

    b) Martial Status, measured as married, divorced, widowed, single: Qualitative - Unordered Variable

    c) Types of stores found in a shopping center: Qualitative – Unordered Variables

    d) Height measured in inches: Quantitative - Continuous Variable

    e) Height measured as tall, average, short: Qualitative - Ordered Variable

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    These look correct to me.

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