Question

The security guard of the school was asked to keep the record of the number of cycles parked in the parking area each day for a week.
The data collected by the security guard will fall under which category?

• A. Categorical data
• B. Numerical data

Answer 1

The correct option is B Numerical data

The data collected by the security guard will be represented as,


Since every value recorded while collecting the data is a number, therefore the data collected by the security guard falls under the category of numerical data.

On the other hand, the set of non-numerical information that can be categorised into different groups is known as categorical data.

So, option (b) is correct.