Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals — Question 3
What is a use case for classification?
Answer options
- A. predicting how many cups of coffee a person will drink based on how many hours the person slept the previous night.
- B. analyzing the contents of images and grouping images that have similar colors
- C. predicting whether someone uses a bicycle to travel to work based on the distance from home to work
- D. predicting how many minutes it will take someone to run a race based on past race times
Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer, C, is a classification task as it involves predicting a categorical outcome (bicycle use) based on input features (distance). Option A is a regression problem predicting a continuous variable, B involves clustering which is not classification, and D is also a regression scenario predicting a continuous time value.