35. reason in statistics, continuous data can
have values equal to any real number, such as
the average temperature for an area or the
number of inches of rainfall. other sets of data
are discrete. examples of discrete data are the
number of students in a school district, the
number of home runs hit by a baseball team
in a season, and the number of letters handled
by the post office each month. which subset
of the real numbers is the best one to use to
describe discrete data?