A postal worker counts the number of complaint letters received by the United States Postal Service in a givenday. Identify the type of data collected.

A) quantitative

B) qualitative

A) quantitative

Step-by-step explanation:

A data that can be counted or expressed numerically constitute quantitative data. Quantitative data collection method is capturing statistical data in numbers, figures, or values. Quantitative data collection usually answered the questions of "how many?", "how much?" and "how often?" are the occurrence of a particular data. These questions are quantitative data collection methods based on numbers and mathematical calculations. Quantitative data collection methods are based on random sampling and structured data collection. Some of the quantitative data collection methods are surveys, questionnaires, quizzes, interviews and direct observation.