Provide an Appropriate Response

question 95

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-The peak shopping time at a pet store is between 8-11:00 am on Saturday mornings. Management at the pet store randomly selected 35 customers last Saturday morning and decided to observe their shopping habits. They recorded the number of items that a sample of the customers purchased as well as the total time the customers spent in the store. Identify the types of variables recorded by the pet store.

• A) number of items - discrete; total time - continuous
• B) number of items - continuous; total time - continuous
• C) number of items - continuous; total time - discrete
• D) number of items - discrete; total time - discrete

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