Variation

Question 1

Discontinuous variation…

Answer 1

It is where something falls in to a distinctive class or category, for example shoe size, eye colour.

Discontinuous variation leads to counting e.g. number of people with black hair

Question 2

Variation

Answer 2

Is differences between individuals of the same species

Question 3

Continuous variation examples

Answer 3

Height, weight, heart rate etc.

Question 4

Continuous variation

Answer 4

It is where it doesn’t fit into a distinctive group and may take any value e.g. heart rate and height.

Continuous variation leads to measuring e.g. length of foot, volume of liquid etc.

Question 5

Discontinuous variation examples

Answer 5

Shoe size, hair colour,