A Health Practitioner Measures the Heart Rate (In Number of Beats

question 24

Multiple Choice

A health practitioner measures the heart rate (in number of beats per minute) of patients under low,moderate,and high stress levels.Heart rate can be best described as

• A) continuous data.
• B) discrete data.
• C) a qualitative variable.
• D) the independent variable.

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