A survey is conducted on students taking a statistics class. Several variables a

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A survey is conducted on students taking a statistics class. Several variables are measured in the survey. Which of these variables listed below is NOT quantitative? The high school GPA The number of credit hours taken during the quarter Incorrect The parents' annual income The gender A survey is conducted on students taking a statistics class. Several variables are measured in the survey. Which of these variables listed below is NOT quantitative? The high school GPA The number of credit hours taken during the quarter Incorrect The parents' annual income The gender

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The gender is NOT a quantitative variable because it can not be measured in numbers rather in can take only two values that are Male aor Female. Although, one can assign a mathematical value to a particular gender like 0 to Male and 1 to Female but that won't have any mathematical significant and one can not perform any mathematical operations on that.

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