An experiment consists of making 80 telephone calls in order to sell a particular insurance policy.The random variable is the number of sales made.This random variable is a:
A)a discrete random variable
B)a continuous random variable
C)either a continuous or a discrete random variable, depending on the number of the calls made
D)either a continuous or a discrete random variable, depending on the gender of the customers
E)a complex random variable

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The number of sales made from telephone calls can only take on integer values (0, 1, 2, ..., 80), making it a discrete random variable. Continuous random variables, in contrast, can take on any value within a range, which does not apply in this scenario.

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