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MINDTAP er 1 Assignment uick on the cataie logo to rererence tne aata DATA Gross

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Question

MINDTAP er 1 Assignment uick on the cataie logo to rererence tne aata DATA Gross Market Price/ Profit Earnings Margin Cap Ticker Symbol Ratio (%) ($ millions) Exchange Company DeWolfe Companies AMEX | DwL North Coast Energy HANS Hansen Natural Corp. MarineMax, Inc. NYSE HzO NANO Nanometrics IncorporatedOTC 92.1 TeamStaff, Inc. Environmental Tectonics Measurement Specialties SEMCO Energy, Inc. Party City Corporation Embrex, Inc. Tech/Ops Sevcon, Inc. ARCADIS NV Qiao Xing Universal Tele. OTC AMEX ETC AMEX MSS NYSE SEN 26.8 23.6 36.4 136.5 AMEXTO OTC 173.4 ARCAF XING EWST Energy West Incorporated OTC Barnwell Industries, Inc. 73.4 AMEX BRN OTC 29.6 52.1 53.6 60.7 Medical Action Industries OTC MDCI INMRY DRXR GAIA YORW 240.9 Drexler Technology Corp. OTC Gaiam, Inc. Artesian Resources Corp. OTC 45.6 Gerber Childrenswear Inc. NYSE GCW 126.9 295.5 62.8 a. How many variables are in the data set? b. Of the foilowing subset of variables, indicate which are categorical and which are quantitative. Categorical

Explanation / Answer

a) Number of variables is data set are 5

b)

For variable Market Cap, Price/Earnings Ratio, Gross Profit Margin- we have numerical values, hence they are quantitative variable

For variable Exchange and Ticker Symbol - we have nominal data, therefreo they are categorical variables.

Variable Type of Variable Exchange Categorical Market Cap Quantitative Price/Earning Ratio Quantitative Gross Profit Margin Quantitative Ticker Symbol Categorical