Aprofessor collects information on students in her statistics course at whatsamatta u. she records the students' majors, the number of books they read last semester, and whether or not they owned a pet. in this context, "pet owner" is

1) a categorical variable
2) a quantitative variable
3) not a variable

a categorical variable            

Explanation:

In analytics, a categorical variable refers to the variable that, based on certain qualitative attributes, can carry on some of a small and typically fixed amount of potential values, attaching each person or another unit of measurement to a given group or marginal classification.

Categorical variables often relates to as datatypes or listed forms in information technology and maybe some divisions of arithmetic. -potential meaning of a normative factor is usually referred to as a stage. A categorical distribution is considered as the spectrum of probabilities connected with an unique categorical component.

answer; (cash) is the best out of the above; good luck