Question

The traffic engineer for a large city is conducting a study on traffic flow at a certain intersection near the city administration building. The engineer will collect data on different variables related to the intersection each day for ten days. Of the following variables, which will be measured using continuous data?
(A) The number of cars passing through the intersection in one hour
(B) The number of pedestrians crossing the intersection in one hour
(C) The number of bicyclists crossing the intersection in one hour
(D) The number of food trucks that park within four blocks of the intersection
(E) The number of minutes for a car to get from the intersection to the administration building

Answer 1

Answer:

Minutes can provide us the continuous data as we can have the values between the two minutes, in fraction. So if we consider minutes there will be a complete continuous data for the analysis. However the number of cars, trucks, pedestrians, bicyclists, food trucks etc will be in integers as they can not be described in terms of fractions. So for continuous data option (E) is correct.

The number of minutes for a car to get from the intersection to the administration building.