According to the M&Ms Web site, each package of the milk chocolate candies typically contains 14% brown, 13% red, 14% yellow, 16% green, 24% blue, and 20% orange M&Ms. You go to the store and buy a standard package. When you open it, you find that it contains 51 M&Ms, distributed as follows. The variable color is:
A)discrete.
B)continuous.
C)quantitative.
D)None of the answer options is correct.

Question

According to the M&Ms Web site, each package of the milk chocolate candies typically contains 14% brown, 13% red, 14% yellow, 16% green, 24% blue, and 20% orange M&Ms. You go to the store and buy a standard package. When you open it, you find that it contains 51 M&Ms, distributed as follows.  The variable color is:
A)discrete. 
B)continuous. 
C)quantitative. 
D)None of the answer options is correct.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The variable color is discrete because it can only take on six distinct values (brown, red, yellow, green, blue, and orange) and cannot be fractionally or continuously measured.

According to the M&Ms Web Site, Each Package of the Milk