The Vice Chancellor of a major university was concerned about alcohol abuse on her campus and wanted to find out the proportion of students at her university who visited the campus bar on the weekend before the final exam period.Her advisor took a random sample of 250 students.The total number of students in the sample who visited the campus bar on the weekend before the final exam period is an example of
A) a categorical random variable.
B) a discrete random variable.
C) a continuous random variable.
D) a parameter.

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The total number of students who visited the campus bar can only take on discrete values (i.e. whole numbers) and is therefore a discrete random variable.

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