In Exercises 5-8, determine whether the given values are from a discrete or cont

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In Exercises 5-8, determine whether the given values are from a discrete or continuous data set. George Washington's presidential salary was $25,000 per year, and the current presidential salary is $400,000. A statistics student obtains sample data and finds that the mean weight of cars in the sample is 3126 lb. In a survey of 1059 adults, it is found that 39% of them have guns in their homes (based on a Gallup poll). When 19.218 gas masks from branches of the U.S. military were tested, it was found that 10, 322 of them were defective (based on data from Time magazine) In Exercises 9-16, determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal interval, ratio) is most appropriate. Heights of women basketball players in the WNBA Ratings of fantastic, good, average. poor, or unacceptable for blind dates Current temperatures of the classrooms at your college

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5)Continuous distribution

7)Continuous distribution

9) and 11)

Ratio is most appropriate level of mesuremnt for both height and temprature.

Explanation:

The values can be ordered, have a meaningful difference, and doubling is also meaningful. There is an “absolute zero”.

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