Question

A _______ is a collection of numbers gathered to give some meaningful information.

Answer 1

A data is a collection of numbers gathered to give some information.

Answer 2

The correct answer is Data.

Explanation:

• A Data is a collection of numbers gathered to give some meaningful information.
• A collection of numbers gathered to get some information is called data.
• Data are individual facts, statistics, or items of information, often numeric.
• In a more technical sense, data are a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables about one or more persons or objects, while a datum is a single value of a single variable.