Discrete vs Continuous Statistics

The number of orange Skittles in a bag. 

• Discrete

• Continuous

Joe is losing an average of .5 pounds a week.  Is this continuous or discrete data?

• Discrete

• Continuous

The number of children of a family

• Discrete Data

• Continuous Data

Which of the following data is continuous?

• The weight of a person

• Books sold every month on Amazon

• Employees working in a store

The number of books in your locker.

• Continuous

• Discrete

The number of babies born at Greenville Memorial Hospital this month.

• Continuous

• Discrete

Decide whether the distribution is a probability distribution.

• Yes, it is a discrete probability distribution.

• No, it is not a discrete probability distribution.

Which of the following is not a random variable?

• The heights of randomly-selected buildings in New York City.

• The suit of a card randomly-selected from a 52-card deck.

• The number of children in randomly-selected households in the United States.

• The amount of money won (or lost) by next person to walk out of a casino in Las Vegas.