Question

Determine whether the value is from a discrete or continuous data set.Number of members present at a meeting is 6Is the value from A) discrete B) continuous

Answer 1

To answer this question we need to understand the difference between discrete and continous data:

• Discrete data can only take certain values along some interval.

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• Continuous data can take any value along some interval.

In this case we know that there will always be a integer number of people in the meeting, that is, we can only have certain values (we can't have 6.5 people in a meeting).

Therefore, this is a discrete data set.