Multiple Choice
To monitor campus security, the campus police office is taking a survey of the number of students in a parking lot every 30 minutes for a 24-hour period with the goal of determining when patrols of the lot would serve the most students. If X is the number of students in the lot during each period of time, then X is an example of
A) a categorical random variable.
B) a discrete random variable.
C) a continuous random variable.
D) a statistic.
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