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Assessment: Different Data Types :Understanding and Visualizing Data with Python (Statistics with Python Specialization) Answers 2025

1️⃣ Question 1

“Checked out a book in the past month? (Yes/No)”

  • Categorical Nominal

  • ❌ Categorical Ordinal

  • ❌ Quantitative Continuous

  • ❌ Quantitative Discrete

Explanation:
Yes/No responses have no order, so this is nominal categorical.


2️⃣ Question 2

Late fees in dollars ($XX.XX):

  • ❌ Categorical Nominal

  • ❌ Categorical Ordinal

  • Quantitative Continuous

  • ❌ Quantitative Discrete

Explanation:
Money with decimals is continuous.


3️⃣ Question 3

Genre of last book checked out:

  • Categorical Nominal

  • ❌ Categorical Ordinal

  • ❌ Quantitative Continuous

  • ❌ Quantitative Discrete

Explanation:
Genres have no inherent ranking.


4️⃣ Question 4

Number of times used the new online system:

  • ❌ Categorical Nominal

  • ❌ Categorical Ordinal

  • ❌ Quantitative Continuous

  • Quantitative Discrete

Explanation:
Counts (0,1,2,3…) are always discrete.


5️⃣ Question 5

Satisfaction scale (1–5):

  • ❌ Categorical Nominal

  • Categorical Ordinal

  • ❌ Quantitative Continuous

  • ❌ Quantitative Discrete

Explanation:
The scale has a meaningful order, but intervals are not equal → ordinal.


🧾 Summary Table

Q Correct Answer
1 Categorical Nominal
2 Quantitative Continuous
3 Categorical Nominal
4 Quantitative Discrete
5 Categorical Ordinal