Determine the level of measurement for each of the following variables: a. The number of people in your statistics class b. The percentage of students who are first-generation college students at your school c. The name of each academic major offered in your college

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 Determine the level of measurement for each of the following variables:
a. The number of people in your statistics class
b. The percentage of students who are first-generation college students at your school
c. The name of each academic major offered in your college
d. The rating of the overall quality of a textbook, on a scale from “excellent” to “poor”
e. The type of transportation a person takes to school (e.g., bus, walk, car)
f. The number of hours you study for a statistics exam
g. The rating of the overall quality of your campus coffee shop, on a scale from “excellent” to “poor”
C4. For each of the variables in Exercise 3 that you classified as interval-ratio, identify whether it is discrete or continuous

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Level of measurements define the various measurements. There are four types of measurement levels, they are nominal, ordinal, ratio and interval. Nominal and ordinal are categorical variable, also Ratio and interval are numerical variable. Nominal variable is attribute variable but the ordinal variable is an orderly way. 

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