Question

For the following random sample:

"For 40 randomly chosen New Yorkers, the number of books each had read in 2019."

state:

1) a possible population

2) whether the data is discrete , continuous or categorical

3) the sample space for one sample or observation

Answer 1

1) a possible population

the number of books people read in an year

2) whether the data is discrete , continuous or categorical

Since, the number of books is an integer, the data is discrete

3) the sample space for one sample or observation

S = { 0, 1, 2, .........................}

An open set from 0, 1, to infinite