A medical practice collects data on its patients with respect to several personal habits. The following table gives the distribution of the number of alcoholic drinks consumed per day in that population of patients. Xof drinks per day 0 1 2 3 Probability 0.38 0.32 0.25 0.05 Is this a continuous or discrete random variable? Continuous Discrete

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A medical practice collects data on its patients with respect to several personal habits. The
following table gives the distribution of the number of alcoholic drinks consumed per day in that
population of patients.
Xof drinks per day
0
1
2
3
Probability
0.38
0.32
0.25
0.05
Is this a continuous or discrete random variable?
Continuous
Discrete
Transcribed Image Text:A medical practice collects data on its patients with respect to several personal habits. The following table gives the distribution of the number of alcoholic drinks consumed per day in that population of patients. Xof drinks per day 0 1 2 3 Probability 0.38 0.32 0.25 0.05 Is this a continuous or discrete random variable? Continuous Discrete
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