Question

Which of the following situations would best be modeled by a continuous relationship? A. The weight of a child over time. b. The number of children at a birthday party. c. The temperature every morning at 8am. d. The cost of bananas is 17 cents each.

Answer 1

The weight of a child over time

Explanation:

The answer is NOT C, I put that and got the question wrong!! I searched up what a continuous relationship was and its "a type of numerical data that refers to the unspecified number of possible measurements between two realistic points." (it wont let me put the link, sorry!). That basically means that the data changes slightly over time. It cant be b or d because the children would change in numbers pretty quickly once the birthday is done and the cost of bananas is constant.

Answer 2

Answer: The answer is (c) The temperature every morning at 8am.

Step-by-step explanation: We are given four options and we are to select which situation among them can be best modelled by a continuous relationship.

A continuous relationship can be seen in a group of data where the values belonging to the group can take any value within a finite or infinite interval.

And a discrete relationship can be seen in a group of data where the values belonging to the group are distinct and separate.

We can easily see from the options that (a), (b) and (d) will fall in discrete relationship because the values here will be distinct and separate.

But, in option (c), the values of the temperature falls in a continuous relationship.

Thus, the correct option is (c).