Question

Temperature Recordings During the Day

A meteorologist collected the temperature outside every day for a year. The meteorologist recorded the average temperature outside each hour for several different hours during the day. The results are shown in the table. The meteorologist created a line graph to display the overall average results.

Hours After Noon Average Temperature (°F)
0 51
1 51
2 55
3 55
4 58
5 58
6 56
7 52
8 50
The coordinate grid has x axis from 0 to 8 titled Hours after Noon and y axis from 50 to 60 titled Temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit. A solid line connects 9 points.
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The meteorologist concludes that the temperature increases until 5 hours after noon, and then starts to decrease.

Question
Use the data report on the left to answer the questions.

What type of data is collected in the data report? How do you know?

(1 point)
Responses

Quantitative data because quantitative data represent amounts.
Quantitative data because quantitative data represent amounts.

Categorical data because categorical data represent groups.
Categorical data because categorical data represent groups.

Quantitative data because quantitative data represent groups.
Quantitative data because quantitative data represent groups.

Categorical data because categorical data represent amounts.
Categorical data because categorical data represent amounts.

Answer 1

Quantitative data because quantitative data represent amounts.

(Temperatures are numeric measurements, so they are quantitative.)