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In this question, we have some ratings for 13 beaches.
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For part a, we need to know if it's appropriate to use a dot plot for this data.
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So we need to identify if the data is categorical or numerical.
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Categorical means it is describing a quality of the data.
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Sometimes it's called qualitative.
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Numerical means it is describing an amount.
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You can put a number to it.
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So it's a quantity.
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Here we have no numbers to assign to each rating.
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We just have a letter, so we just have a grade.
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So this is categorical data, and a dot plot is not appropriate for categorical data.
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So the answer is c.
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Numerical data, a dot plot works quite well.
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Categorical, it makes less sense because you don't really have a good scale for your x -axis.
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I don't know what the difference is between these ratings.
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I can put them in order, but i don't know how much better an a plus is compared to an a or an a to a b.
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So that makes plotting the data on any kind of graph difficult...