Differentiating Continuous and Discrete Data

What type of data can take on any value within an interval?

• Ordinal data

• Categorical data

• Continuous data

• Discrete data

Which of the following is an example of discrete data?

• Weight of a person

• Number of books on a shelf

• Height of a student

• Temperature

How is continuous data typically obtained?

• By measuring

• By counting

• By ranking

• By categorizing

Which of the following represents continuous data?

• Number of students in a classroom

• Number of doctors in a town

• Speed of a car

• Number of cats in a neighborhood

If you round your age to the nearest whole number, what type of data does it represent?

• Ordinal data

• Categorical data

• Discrete data

• Continuous data

What type of data is represented by your exact age?

• Categorical data

• Ordinal data

• Continuous data

• Discrete data

What characteristic must a graph have to represent continuous data?

• It must have individual points

• It must have jumps or discontinuities

• It must be a straight line

• It must be a connected line

Which type of graph represents discrete data?

• A connected line

• A smooth line

• A graph with individual points

• A graph with no points

What is a simple way to distinguish a graph representing continuous data?

• It is a connected line

• It has jumps

• It has individual points

• It is a straight line

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of discrete data?

• It can be counted

• It can take on any value within an interval

• It has specific values

• It is easy to count whole numbers