alleryStart learning →The heights of radish plants are given as an example of which kind of variable?
ADiscrete counted
BCategorical named
COrdinal ranked
DContinuous random
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Continuous random
1. Measurements that can take any value in a range are continuous.
2. Heights are measured rather than counted.
3. The heights of these radish plants are continuous random variables.
4. A count of plants would instead be a discrete variable.
_Source: OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 5 'Continuous Random Variables', sections 5.1-5.3_
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