Which of the following is a continuous quantitative (numerical) variable?

a) The color of a student's eyes
b) The number of employees of an insurance company
c) The amount of milk in a 2-liter carton.
d) The number of gallons of milk sold at the local grocery store yesterday

To monitor campus security, the campus police officer is taking a survey of the number of
students in a parking lot every 30 minutes of a 24-hour period with the goal of determining when patrols of the lot would serve the most students. If X is the number of students in the lot each period of time, then X is an example of

a) a categorical variable.
b) a discrete variable.
c) a continuous variable.
d) a statistic.

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