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  1. October 3rd 2009, 12:27 AM #1
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    Please help: continuous or discrete?

    How many circles of Cheerios in a cereal box represents what kind of distribution? Discrete or Cotinuous?
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  2. October 3rd 2009, 02:10 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Math_Helper View Post
    How many circles of Cheerios in a cereal box represents what kind of distribution? Discrete or Cotinuous?
    Discrete (there can only be a finite whole number of them so they can be counted).
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