Question

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

Answer 1

D. A discrete variable

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