Which Is a Not a Discrete Random Variable

question 52

Multiple Choice

Which is a not a discrete random variable?

• A) The number of births in a hospital on a given day
• B) The number of fives obtained in four rolls of a die
• C) The hourly earnings of a call center employee in Boston
• D) The number of applicants applying for a civil service job

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Definitions:

Average Wage

The mean earnings of workers in a specific job, industry, or region, often used to compare economic wellbeing.

Dispersed

Spread out or scattered, not concentrated in one area.

Data Distribution

The way in which data points are spread or dispersed across values in a dataset.

Skewness

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; indicates how the tail on one side of the distribution compares to the tail on the other side.