Question

A person goes fishing and comes back with five fish. What type of data is this? discrete data
categorical data
continuous data
qualitative data

Answer 1

In the given problem, a person who goes fishing comes back with five fish.  The given data is five fish which is numerical. This type of data is called discrete data. Discrete data can be numeric such as the number of fish in the problem. It can also be by category like what kind of fish the person got.