Questions: 1. Identify each situation below as continuous or discrete a. Mrs. Hickson makes jars of pickles. She can produce 24 jars of pickles per day.

1. Identify each situation below as continuous or discrete
a. Mrs. Hickson makes jars of pickles. She can produce 24 jars of pickles per day.

Transcript text: 1. Identify each situation below as continuous or discrete a. Mrs. Hickson makes jars of pickles. She can produce 24 jars of pickles per day. $\qquad$

Solution

Solution Steps

Solution Approach

To determine if the situation is continuous or discrete, we need to understand the nature of the data. If the data can take any value within a range, it is continuous. If the data can only take specific, separate values, it is discrete. a. The number of jars of pickles produced per day is a countable quantity, which means it is discrete.

Step 1: Identify the Situation

The situation describes Mrs. Hickson producing jars of pickles, specifically stating that she can produce $ 24 $ jars of pickles per day.

Step 2: Determine the Nature of the Data

To classify the data as continuous or discrete, we analyze the quantity of jars produced. Since the number of jars can only take specific integer values (e.g., $ 0, 1, 2, \ldots, 24 $), it is not possible to have a non-integer number of jars. Therefore, the data is classified as discrete.