A veterinarian is visited by many pets and their owners each day. Before the doctor attends to each pet, an assistant records information including the type, age, weight, and height of each pet. What are the individuals in the data set?

Individuals are the objects or people described by the data. Here, the assistant records a type, age, weight, and height for each pet, so each pet is an individual. The measurements and categories, such as heights and weights, are variables recorded about those individuals.

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