A company was studying the demographics of their customers. As part of the study they collected the following variables: gender, marital status, credit rating (low, medium, high), annual income, and age. Label the variable age as qualitative or quantitative, discrete or continuous, and nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.
A) qualitative, discrete, nominal
B) qualitative, continuous, Ordinal
C) quantitative, discrete, nominal
D) quantitative, continuous, ratio
E) None of the choices are correct

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Age is a quantitative variable because it is numerical. It is continuous because it can take any value within a range. It is a ratio variable because it has a true zero point and the differences between values are meaningful.

A Company Was Studying the Demographics of Their Customers