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newbem · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

The school newspaper surveyed 100 commuter students and asked two questions. First, students were asked how many courses they were currently enrolled in. Second, the commuter students were asked to estimate how long it took them to drive to campus.

Considering these two variables, number of courses would best be considered a _________ variable and drive time would be considered a _________ variable.
A) discrete; continuous B) continuous; continuous
C) discrete; discrete D) continuous; discrete

Question 2

Parking at a large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking spot) of its students.

An administrator inconspicuously followed 250 students and carefully recorded their parking times. Identify the data collection method used by the administration in this study.
A) data from a designed experiment
B) data from a published source
C) data collected observationally