Reference no: EM132410317

In order to collect data on the number of hours students in your university spend on homework daily, you plan on asking each student in a random sample his or her daily average. Explain your answer.

(a) Which type of data will you collect?

(i) Discrete

(ii) Continuous

(iii) Qualitative

(iv) Cannot be determined

(b) Which measures of central tendency can be used to summarize the data? Briefly describe some circumstances under which each would each be preferred?

(i) Mean

(ii) Median

(iii) Mode

(iv) Variance