Question

1. (a) Determine the following statement is a population or a sample. İ. The income tax collected from 6884 companies in Malaysia. ii. The price of all houses sold by IHM Land Sdn. Bhd. iii. Number of parole violations by all 320 parolees in a city. iv. The monthly income for year 2018. (b) Indicate the following variables are quantitative or qualitative, classify quantitative variables as discrete or continuous. I. Summer holiday locations favoured by employees. ii. Number of votes won by the political party. iii. Citizenship of tourists visiting a country. iv. Price of balloons. [10 Marks]

Answer 1

1.

a)

first defining the meaning of population and sample

population: the whole population where study is intended

sample: a part of population we have taken to perform experiment

i)

we have taken only 68844 companies so its sample

ii)

Here we are interested in the all houses Hence its population

iii)

so here all parols considered hence its population

iv)

population

b)

qualitative : not measured quantitatively

quantitative : we can measure

i)

qualitative

ii)

quantitative (discrete)

iii)

qualitative

iv)

quantitative ( continuous)