For each variable, determine whether it is best thought of as discrete or continuous.VariableDiscreteContinuous(a) The temperature of a burrito served to a customer in a local Mexican restaurant (b) The number of insects feeding on a tree leaf (c) The number of tickets purchased by a caller on a Rose Bowl ticket hotline (d) The number of defective compact discs in a batch of 500 discs

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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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Author:Amos Gilat

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Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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For each variable, determine whether it is best thought of as discrete or continuous.

Variable	Discrete	Continuous
(a) The temperature of a burrito served to a customer in a local Mexican restaurant
(b) The number of insects feeding on a tree leaf
(c) The number of tickets purchased by a caller on a Rose Bowl ticket hotline
(d) The number of defective compact discs in a batch of 500 discs

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As Prof. P.K. Giri said

"A discrete random variable is a variable whose values can be obtained by counting. Though, the values can range infinitely, therefore, a discrete random variable is countably infinite. A continuous random variable is a variable whose value can be obtained by measuring. A continuous random variable can take uncountably infinite number of values."