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A researcher records the number of hours spent studying each week by a group of students. What type of variable is this?Group of answer choicesDiscreteOrdinalCategoricalContinuous

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A researcher records the number of hours spent studying each week by a group of students. What type of variable is this?Group of answer choicesDiscreteOrdinalCategoricalContinuous

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The type of variable that the researcher is recording (number of hours spent studying each week by a group of students) is a Continuous variable. This is because the number of hours can take on any value within a certain range, including fractions of hours, and is not limited to distinct, separate values.

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