What is the difference between a continuous and discrete random variable?
- What is the difference between a continuous and discrete random variable?
- Would you consider the temperature outside a discrete random variable? Why or why not?
- Suppose a piggy bank contains 100 coins (25 pennies, 25 dimes, 25 nickels, and 25 quarters). Let the random variable X represent the total value of five randomly selected coins. Is X a discrete or continuous random variable?
- What are the properties of a continuous distribution?
- What are the properties of a discrete distribution?
- Give an example of a discrete and a continuous random variable.
- Give examples of three different discrete random variables.
- Give examples of three different continuous random variables.
- Can you describe a random variable Y that is both discrete and continuous?