The number of finance majors within the School of Business is an example of _______.
A)a discrete random variable
B)a continuous random variable
C)the Poisson distribution
D)the normal distribution
E)a constant

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The number of finance majors within the School of Business is a count of individuals, which makes it a discrete random variable because it can only take on integer values (e.g., 1, 2, 3, ...), not any value in a continuous range.

The Number of Finance Majors Within the School of Business