Continuous and discontinuous

Question 1

What is discontinuous variation?

Answer 1

Characteristics that can only result in certain values.

Question 2

What is continuous variation?

Answer 2

A characteristic that can take any value within a range is said to be continuous variation.

Question 3

Give 3 examples of continuous variation

Answer 3

Body mass, hair length, height, arm span, temperature

Question 4

Give 3 examples of discontinuous variation

Answer 4

number of people in your family, blood type, eye colour, test questions answered correctly in a test

Question 5

How do we show discontinuous data?

Answer 5

We always make a bar chart with the bars an equal distance away from each other, not touching.

Question 6

How do we show continuous data?

Answer 6

We make a histogram, we then make all of our bars touching and we draw a line on the top of the bars to make it clearer to see the histogram.