EBK STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES IN BUSINESS
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Chapter 6, Problem 4E
Which of these variables are discrete and which are continuous random variables?
- a. The number of new accounts established by a salesperson in a year.
- b. The time between customer arrivals to a bank ATM.
- c. The number of customers in Big Nick’s barber shop.
- d. The amount of fuel in your car’s gas tank.
- e. The number of minorities on a jury.
- f. The outside temperature today.
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