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a college admissions office collects data from each incoming freshman on several quantitative variables distance from their home to campus, number of siblings, how many books they have read in the past month and how long it took them to complete an online survey. classify each variable as discrete or continuous

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Answer:

1) Distance from their home to campus → Continuous

2) The number of siblings → Discrete

3) How many books they have read in the past month → Discrete

4) How long it took them to complete an online survey → Continuous

Explanation:

A discrete variable is a variable with a constant value which is found to be accurate by counting of articles in the subject.

Examples of discrete variables are the amount of money in a person's pocket, the number of people in a bus

A continuous variable is one that is a variable that if it is possible for the variable to have values between two values, then the variable can have any of the values in between the two values

Example of a continuous variable are

The Height of people within a building

The distance traveled to a location.

Therefore, we have the following classification of the data is given as follows;

1) from their home to campus is a Continuous variable

2) The number of siblings is a Discrete variable

3) How many books they have read in the past month is a Discrete variable

4) How long it took them to complete an online survey is a Continuous variable.

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