'Exercise: Discrete Or Continuous? 1. Number of misspelled words in Spelling Bee 2. Amount of water through Mona dam in a day 3 . How late for class 4. Number of bacteria in a water sample 5. Amount of CO produced from burning a litre of unleaded gas 6. Your weight 7. Number of checkout lanes at grocery store 8. Amount of time waiting in line at grocery store'
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Number of misspelled words in Spelling Bee: This is a countable quantity, so it is discrete. Show more…
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Classify each of the following as discrete or continuous random variables. a) The number of words spelled correctly by a student on a spelling test. b) The amount of water flowing through the Niagara Falls per year. c) The length of time a student is late to class. d) The number of bacteria per cc of drinking water in Geneva. e) The amount of CO produced per litre of unleaded gas. f) The amount of a flu vaccine in a syringe. g) The heart rate of a lab mouse. h) The barometric pressure at Mount Everest. i) The distance travelled by a taxi driver per day. j) Total score of football teams in national leagues. k) Height of ocean tides on the shores of Portugal. 1) Tensile breaking strength (in newtons per square metre) of a 5 cm diameter steel cable. m) Number of overdue books in a public library.
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