Burger King is one of the largest fastfood franchise operati

Burger King is one of the largest fast-food franchise operations in the world. Recently, the district manager for Burger King in Las Vegas conducted a study in which she selected a random sample of sales receipts. She was interested in the number of line items on the receipts. For instance, if a customer ordered two .-pound hamburgers, one side of fries, and two soft drinks, the number of line items would be five. The data can be found in the data set BurgerKing.

a. Identify the following for the data collected: i. population

ii. sample

iii. Is the data qualitative or quantitative? If quantitative is the data discrete or continuous?

iv. What is the level of measurement are the data?

Solution

Identify the following for the data collected:

i. population:

is a completed set of items that share at least one property in common that is the subject of a statistical analysis.

In this case could be all customer for Burguerking or like in this excercise customer ordered two .-pound hamburgers, one side of fries, and two soft drinks, the number of line items would be five or etc.

ii. sample:

is a set of data collected and / or selecgte from statistical population by a defined proceduce. In this case a group of 10 customer between 30 and 35 years old who ordered two .-pound hamburgers, one side of fries, and two soft drinks.

iii. Is the data qualitative or quantitative? If quantitative is the data discrete or continuous? D

Data quantitative, are items or datas that can be measure for any method, like age, weight, and etc. quantitative data can be measure, like color or opinion from people.

The data is continuos due to The datas can has as many decimals as you wish. The data discrete only can has one value.

iv. What is the level of measurement are the data?

is a classification that describes the nature of information within the numbers assigned to variables, in this case is nominal scale.