1. a researcher is gathering data on people's favorite sports teams. the variable, favorite sports team, is an example of a variable.

a. ordinal

b. nominal

c. ratio

d. interval

Option B) nominal

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the following:

A researcher is gathering data on people's favorite sports teams.

Variable: favorite sports team

Now, this variable is an example of nominal data because this is a variable with no numeric value.

a

step-by-step explanation:

strong negative correlation

there is only one way to arrange all the eight relative to each other because they are not distinct. we have

now there are nine places to place an (and not more than one in one place).   because we have four symbols, we need to choose four of these nine places to insert an . order does not matter because the are not distinct.

thus there are 1 · c(9,4) ways, or, if we calculate it,

thus there are 126 ways to form such "words."