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Which relationship is continuous?
A. The number of cows a farmer has owned over the years
B. The number of cookies Stan baked for the party
C. The number of people attending the assembly
D. The distance a runner ran during training
Which of the following relationship are continuous.
Answer to Problem 3STP
The answer is D.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
- The number of cows a farmer has owned over the years.
- The numebr of cookies stan baked for the party
- The number of people attending the assembly
- The distance a runned ran during training
A, B and C are discrete, since you can only count them using whole numbers.
The distance can include any value between the starting and finishing points.
So, it is continuous.
Hence, the answer is D.
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