Answer to Question #315303 in Statistics and Probability for Seemu

Question

Write whether the following data are discrete or continuous give reason on support of your answer

(1) waiting time of metro when a person reaches metro station

(2)Number of pages in each of the 50 books having some mistakes

(3) Height of students of IGNOU who enrolled in 2021

(4) Number of children in a family in a colony of 100 families

Answer 1

A discrete random variable is a random variable which can take no more than a countable number of values.

A continuous random variable is a random variable which can take any value in an interval.

(1) continuous

(2) discrete

(3) continuous

(4) discrete