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Two researchers conducted a study to investigate the extent to which personality, intelligence, and learning approaches predict academic performance. They collected data from 150 randomly selected college students out of a population of 500 students from varied ages, year levels, and courses. The independent variables were personality, intelligence, and approaches to learning, while the dependent variable was academic performance. Age was a numerical variable and year levels and courses were categorical variables.

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Two researchers conducted a study to investigate the extent to which personality, intelligence, and learning approaches predict academic performance. They collected data from 150 randomly selected college students out of a population of 500 students from varied ages, year levels, and courses. The independent variables were personality, intelligence, and approaches to learning, while the dependent variable was academic performance. Age was a numerical variable and year levels and courses were categorical variables.

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A.

Two researchers conducted a study about “personality, intelligence and


approaches to learning as predictors of academic performance.” They
investigated the extent to which personality, ability and learning approaches
predict academic performance. they gathered data from randomly select 150 out
of 500 college students of a university. These students belonged to varied ages,
year levels, and courses.
In the given problem,
1.Which is/are the dependent variable/s?
2.Which is/are independent variable/s?
3.Which is/are the categorical variable/s?
4.Which is/are the numerical variable/s?
5.What is the sample?
6.What is the population?
INDEPENDENT Personality, intelligence & approaches to learning

DEPENDENT Academic Performance

CATEGORICAL yr levels & courses

NUMERICAL Ages

SAMPLE 150 college students

POPULATION 500 college students


B.  In order to raise funds for the upcoming University Days, the university
student counselors promote and sell tee-shirts to students of the schools of
arts and sciences, business and accountancy, education, engineering and
architecture, hospitality and travel management among others. Tee shirts
are in XS, S, M, L, XL, and XXL; and in colors of white, black, gray, and
maroon. White shirts are priced @ Php250 and color shirts @ Php300. 
Determine the type of variables (categorical, discrete, or continuous) and
data scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) of the following
1.Colors
2.Prices
3.Schools
4.Size
COLORS PRICES SCHOOLS SIZE

white P250.00 Arts & Sci xs

black P300.00 Bus. & Acty s

gray P300.00 Education m

maroon P300.00 Eng. & Archi l

HTM xl

xxl

TYPE OF VARIABLES categorical continuous categorical continuous


DATA SCALE nominal ratio nominal ordinal
Tablet PC Comparison provides a wide variety of information about tablet computers. Their website enables consumers to
easily compare different tablets using factors such as cost, type of operating system, display, size, battery life, and CPU
manufacturers.  A sample of 10 tablet computers is shown below:

TABLET COST($) OPER. SYSTEM DISPLAY SIZE BAT. LIFE (hrs) CPU MFTURER

Acer Iconia 599 Windows 10.1 8.5 Intel

Amazon Kindle 299 Android 8.9 9 TI Omap

Apple iPad 4 499 iOS 9.7 11 Apple

HP Envy 860 Windows 11.6 8 Intel

Lenovo Think 668 Windows 10.1 10.5 Intel

MS Surface 899 Windows 10.6 4 Intel

Motorola Droid 530 Android 10.1 9 TI Omap

Samsung Ativ 590 Windows 11.6 7 Intel

Samsung Tab 525 Android 10.1 10 Nvidia

Sony Tab 8 360 Android 9.4 8 Nvidia


1.How many elements are in this data set? 10 tablets
2.How many variables are in this data set? 5 variables
3.Which variables are categorical and which variables are quantitative?
Oper. System & CPU Manufacturers are categorical and cost, display
size and bat. Life - quantitative
4.What type of measurement of scale is used for each of the variable?
Nominal interval & ratio scale
5.What is average cost for the tablets?
599+299+499+860+668+899+530+590+525+360 / 10 = 582.90

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