Answer to Question #304888 in Statistics and Probability for ced

Question

Identify the following as discrete or continuous random variables.

(a) Q: Total number of points scored in a football game

(b)R: Shelf life of a particular drug

(c) S: Height of the ocean’s tide at a given location

(d)T: Thickness of a hard-bound books

(e) U: Number of aircraft near-collisions in a year

(f) V: Increase in length of life attained by a cancer patient as a result of

chemotherapy

(g) W: Tensile breaking strength (in pounds per square inch) of 1-inch diameter steel

cable

(h)X: Number of drivers killed in vehicular accidents in a certain locality

(i) Y: Number of overdue accounts in a department store at a particular time.

(j) Z: Your blood pressure

Answer 1

a) it is a discrete random variable

b) it is a continuous random variable

c) it is a continuous random variable.

d) it is continuous random variable

e) it is a discrete random variable

f)it is a continuous random variable

g)it is a continuous random variable

h)it is a discrete random variable

i)it is a discrete random variable

j)it is a continuous random variable