Question

A student is studying water fleas and measuring their heart rates as the number of beats per second. What type of data is he recording?

Answer 1

Suppose it's a rate? But is that a type of data? I'unnnooo.

Answer 2

hypothetical ? Qualitative? Quanitative?

Answer 3

What are your choices? In some sense he is recording count data, although quickly converting them to rates.

Answer 4

number of heart beats per second
that means the amount or quantity, so im going to say quantitative.

Answer 5

Definitely quantitative.