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-The peak shopping time at home improvement store is between 8:00am-11:00 am on Saturday mornings.Management at the home improvement store randomly selected 35 customers last Saturday morning anddecided to observe their shopping habits. They recorded the number of items that each of the customerspurchased as well as the total time the customers spent in the store. Identify the types of variables recorded bythe home improvement store.
A) number of items - discrete; total time - continuous
B) number of items - continuous; total time - continuous
C) number of items - continuous; total time - discrete
D) number of items - discrete; total time - discrete

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The number of items is a discrete variable because it can only take on integer values (you can't buy half an item). The total time spent in the store is a continuous variable because time can be measured in increasingly precise units (minutes, seconds, milliseconds, etc.).

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