Question

In a test of a method of gender selection, 725 couples used the XSORT method and 368 of them had baby girls. Choose the correct answer below. A. The data set is neither continuous nor discrete. B. A continuous data set because there are infinitely many possible values and those values can be counted C. A continuous data set because there are infinitely many possible values and those values cannot be counted D. A discrete data set because there are a finite number of possible values

Answer 1

D. A discrete data set because there are a finite number of possible values

Explanation:

If in a test of a method of gender selection, 725 couples used the XSORT method and 368 of them had baby girls. Therefore, this is a discrete data set because there are a finite number of possible values.

A discrete data is a data set in which the number of possible values are either finite or countable.

For continuous data, there are infinitely many possible values in the data set and those values are uncountable, meaning they cannot be counted.

In this scenario, 725 couples used the XSORT method and 368 of them had baby girls. Therefore, this is a discrete data because the values (725 and 368) are finite and can be counted.