Central High School keeps a database of information about each student, including the numeric variables numberOfAbsences and gradePointAverage. The expression below is used to determine whether a student is eligible to receive an academic award.

The correct answer is: numberOfAbsences = 5, gradePointAverage = 3.8.

Explanation:

Quantitative variables are those that adopt numerical values (that is, figures). In this way they differ from qualitative variables, which express qualities, attributes, categories or characteristics.

In the set of quantitative variables, we can also recognize several types of variables:

-The continuous quantitative variables can adopt any value within the framework of a certain interval. Depending on the accuracy of the instrument that performs the measurement, there may be other values in the middle of two values. The height of a person, for example, is a continuous quantitative variable (they can be values such as 1.70 meters; 1.71 meters; 1.72 meters, etc.).

-The discrete quantitative variables, on the other hand, acquire values that are separated from each other on the scale. In other words: there are no other values among the specific values that the variable acquires. The number of pets a person has is a discrete quantitative variable: a woman can have 2, 3 or 4 dogs, but never 2.5 or 3.25 dogs.