Question

For 226 alligators captured in four different lakes, researchers classified the primary food choice (in volume) found in the alligator's stomach in one of the categories - fish, invertebrate, reptile, bird, or other Use the bar chart to answer the following questions 50- 40- Percentage 888 0-1 Other Fish Bird Rep Invert Primary Food Choice of Alligators a. Is primary food choice categorical or quantitative? Categorical Quantitative b. What is the modal category for primary food source? o Other Reptile Fish ООО Bird Invertebrate C. About what percentage of alligators had reptile as the primary food choice? 10% 5%

Answer 1

Answer :

Part 1. Primary food choice is categorical.

Categorical variables represent types of data which may be divided into groups.

Part 2. The modal category for primary food source is others

The modal category is the class with the highest frequency, frequency of others is highest 40%

Part3. 10%

10% of allegators had reptile as the primary food source.

Part 4. Pareto

A Pareto chart is a special type of histogram that represents the Pareto philosophy (the 80/20 rule) through displaying the events by order of impact.