Question

Not sure if im right. the random variable would be new jobs?

Answer 1

Actually, the random variable in this case would represent the company. You can think of the random variable as an independent variable. If
`X=1` represents Lowe's,
`X=2` represents Intel, and so on, then the independent variable would be some given company and the dependent variable would be the number of new jobs pertaining to company
`x`.