Question

The number of customers that enter a store during one day in an example of:

-a continuous random variable
-a discrete random variable
-either a continuous or a discrete random variable, depending on the gender of the customers

Answer 1

-a discrete random variable

Explanation:

The number of customers that enter a store can be 0,1,2,...,100,1000,etc...

If cannot be a decimal number, for example, 0.5. So it is a discrete random variable.

The correct answer is:

-a discrete random variable