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 answer on 'are you likely to visit the campus bar on the weekend before the final exam period' is an example of
A) a discrete random variable.
B) a categorical random variable.
C) a continuous random variable.
D) a parameter.

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The question is asking about a categorical variable, which is a type of qualitative variable that expresses observations or characteristics using categories. The response options, such as "yes" or "no," fall into distinct categories and do not have any inherent numerical value, making this a categorical random variable.

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