A fitness tracker app records the number of steps a user takes each day. On January 1st, 2022, the app logged 10,000 steps for the user. Over the next month, the number of steps increased by an average of 500 steps per day.

Question

Does this situation represent discrete data or continuous data?

Answer 1

The situation described represents discrete data. This is because the number of steps taken is counted in whole numbers (i.e., you can't take a fraction of a step), making the steps a discrete quantity. Additionally, the steps have specific values that can change day to day, but they do not take on any intermediate values.