Question

is a collection of numbers or characters that represent qualitative or quantitative information.

• A. Statistics
• B. Data
• C. Datum

Answer 1

The correct option is B Data

By definition, data is a collection of numbers or characters that represent qualitative or quantitative information.

For example, the following diagram represents data collected by a cafteria that earns revenue from the sale of pizza, burger and pasta in a day.


We can infer that revenue generated from the burger, pizza and pasta sales are $\$500,$ $\$600$ and $\$400$ respectively.

We can also infer that revenue generated by pizza sales is maximum.

Other examples are:

1. Number of tickets sold in an amusement park for each game
2. Power consumed in each household in a particular session
3. Marks of students in a particular subject
4. Price of a certain commodity throughout the year

All these data are collected and need to analyze towards understanding the trend over a period.