Refer to the data below, which are total home game playing times (hours) for all Major League Baseball teams in a recent year (based on data from Baseball Prospectus).

a. The listed playing times are all rounded to the nearest whole number. Before rounding, are the exact playing times discrete data or continuous data?
b. For the listed times, are the data categorical or quantitative?
c. Identify the level of measurement of the listed times: nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.
d. Which of the following best describes the sample data: voluntary response sample, random sample, convenience sample, simple sample?
e. The listed total game times are from one recent year, and the data are available for all years back to 1950. Given that the listed times are part of a larger collection of times, do the data constitute a sample or a population?

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