All of the remaining questions on this practice quiz refer to the following situation. The Bay Area Athletic Club (BAAC, a pseudonym) wants to understand what factors are associated with how long its members have remained with the club. The data table contains the following information about 94 different members.

Length	Number of years of membership with BAAC
Marital	Marital status: 0 = single, 1 = married
Freq	Frequency of use of the club: number of times the member used the club during the month prior to the collection of the data
Type	Type of membership: 0 = Gold (allows full access to the facilities), 1 = Silver (allows access to all equipment and activities except aerobics and yoga classes)
Gender	0 = male, 1 = female

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Adapted from Bryant and Smith,Practical Data Analysis: Case Studies in Business Statistics, Irwin. All rights reserved.

The observations are:

1. time-series
2. cross-sectional

The variable Freq is:

1. Nominal
2. Ordinal
3. Metric

Which variable is the dependent variable?

1. Freq
2. Length
3. Gender
4. Type