Instructions: determine whether the given values are from adiscrete or continous

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Instructions: determine whether the given values are from adiscrete or continous data set Question: Blood pressure:When a woman is randomlyselected   and measured for blood pressure, the systolicblood pressure is found to be 61mm Hg Need help please. Instructions: determine whether the given values are from adiscrete or continous data set Question: Blood pressure:When a woman is randomlyselected   and measured for blood pressure, the systolicblood pressure is found to be 61mm Hg Need help please.

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Blood pressure is a continuous variable. Continuous variables cantake any value within a given range. For example, the bloodpressure could be 60.8, 60.88, 60.888, etc.. The way I remembereddiscrete vs. continuous is that continuous variables are basicallyinfinite while discrete variables must take a valuefrom a set number of possible values.

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