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Classifying Data, SM-Bank 003

The variables blood pressure (low, normal, high) and age (under 50 years, 50 years or over) are

  1. both nominal variables.
  2. both ordinal variables.
  3. a nominal variable and an ordinal variable respectively.
  4. an ordinal variable and a nominal variable respectively.
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\(B\)

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\(\text{Blood pressure is an ordinal variable}\)

\(\text{because it is categorical data that can}\)

\(\text{have an order.}\)

\(\text{Under 50 and over 50, likewise, is an}\)

\(\text{ordinal variable.}\)
 

\(\Rightarrow B\)