1. To monitor campus security, the campus police office is taking a survey of the number of students in a parking lot each 30 minutes of a 24-hour period with the goal of determining when patrols of the lot would serve the most students. If X is the number of students in the lot each period of time, then X is an example of

A. A categorical variable

B. A statistic

C. A continuous variable

D. A discrete variable

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Luz Choi

Mathematics

18 April, 11:53

1. To monitor campus security, the campus police office is taking a survey of the number of students in a parking lot each 30 minutes of a 24-hour period with the goal of determining when patrols of the lot would serve the most students. If X is the number of students in the lot each period of time, then X is an example of

A. A categorical variable

B. A statistic

C. A continuous variable

D. A discrete variable

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Harry Elliott · Answer 1

D. A discrete variable

Step-by-step explanation:

X is the example of a discrete variable.

We know that discrete variables are those variable which we can count like counting of students, counting of house etc. But on the other hand, continuous variable are those variables which we can not count.

So the answer is D.

D. A discrete variable