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rlane42

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on: Jul 24, 2018
Explain why it is possible to find the mean for the data of a quantitative variable, but not for a qualitative variable.

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A company found that the mean number of sales for the 20 salesmen during the past month was 8.5 . What was the total number of sales for the salesmen?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Quantitative variable results in numbers for which arithmetic is meaningful; qualitative variable does not

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rlane42

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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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