When more detailed information is needed, a closed-ended question is carried out. In these types of questions, the answers are usually yes or no, or a choice of pre-designed answers. These questions are normal when conducting research on population censuses or preferential statistics.
Answer:
The response to the question is a discrete random variable.
Explanation:
By definition of a discrete random variable we infer that the response can only take certain known values but the response shall be completely random. As an example when we toss a fair coin the out comes are discrete as only either head or tail is possible and the outcome is random meaning we cannot predict the outcome before hand.
Similarly an continuous random variable takes any value in a set and there are infinitely many possible values it can take. For example if we choose any real number between 1 and 10. Since the answers are infinitely many in number and are completely random.
Now in our survey we can infer that the responses shall be either "yes I smoked last week" or "No i didn't smoke last week". Hence the variables are discrete and random.
It should be formal! (answer b).
The hint in the question is that the city major will attend the ceremony- this tells you that the ceremony will have a more representative, formal character, and will not be an internal celebration among people who know each other (this would make it informal or semi-formal).
Deforestation is when people cut down trees (which means less oxygen for the people). Soil degradation associated with poor soil fertility management practices is a major factor underlying poor agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. About 65% of the agricultural land is degraded, mainly due to low nutrient application, soil erosion and soil acidification.
