(a) The total number of goals scored by a soccer team in a season Discrete or Co
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(a) The total number of goals scored by a soccer team in a season
Discrete or Continuous
(b) The height of a fifth-grade boy
Discrete or Continuous
(c) The number of damaged chromosomes on a petri dish following irradiation
Discrete or Continuous
(d) The number of tickets purchased by a caller on a Rose Bowl ticket hotline
Discrete or Continuous
(a) The total number of goals scored by a soccer team in a season
Discrete or Continuous
(b) The height of a fifth-grade boy
Discrete or Continuous
(c) The number of damaged chromosomes on a petri dish following irradiation
Discrete or Continuous
(d) The number of tickets purchased by a caller on a Rose Bowl ticket hotline
Discrete or Continuous
Explanation / Answer
Discrete data can only take particular values. There may potentially be an infinite number of those values, but each is distinct and there's no grey area in between. Discrete data can be numeric -- like numbers of apples -- but it can also be categorical -- like red or blue, or male or female, or good or bad.
Continuous data are not restricted to defined separate values, but can occupy any value over a continuous range. Between any two continuous data values there may be an infinite number of others. Continuous data are always essentially numeric.
Data can be Descriptive (like "high" or "fast") or Numerical (numbers).
And Numerical Data can be Discrete or Continuous:
Discrete data is counted,
Continuous data is measured
(a) The total number of goals scored by a soccer team in a season
Discrete or Continuous
Answer is Discrete.
(b) The height of a fifth-grade boy
Discrete or Continuous
Answer is Continuous.
(c) The number of damaged chromosomes on a petri dish following irradiation.
Answer is discrete.
(c) The number of damaged chromosomes on a petri dish following irradiation
Answer is discrete.
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