Question

State whether the actual data are discrete or​ continuous, and explain why. The number of phone calls made each day by the sales representative of a company. ​Continuous, because the numbers can have any value within some range of values. ​Discrete, because only counting numbers are​ used, and no values between the counting numbers are possible.

Answer 1

Solution:

Continuous Data:A data that can take on any value. eg.-age, height, weight etc(here we can see : age can take any possible value Integer or decimal, eg-10 years, 10.2years, 12.4 years etc)

Discrete Variable:A data that can take on only integer values. eg. No. of students in the class, No. of employee in an office etc

Now:

The number of phone calls made each day by the sales representative of a company.:-it is a discrete data because No. of phone calls will always be an integer.

Ans: Discrete Data