Ramon is interested in whether the global rise in temperature is also showing up locally in his town, Centerdale. He plans to look up the average annual temperature for Centerdale for five recent randomly selected years. He wants to report the number of years whose temperature was higher than the previous year's temperature. What is the random variable in Ramon's study, and what are its possible values

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Manuel Maxwell

17 November, 17:01

Ramon is interested in whether the global rise in temperature is also showing up locally in his town, Centerdale. He plans to look up the average annual temperature for Centerdale for five recent randomly selected years. He wants to report the number of years whose temperature was higher than the previous year's temperature. What is the random variable in Ramon's study, and what are its possible values

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Micaela Silva · Answer 1

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Ramon wants to report the number of years whose temperature was higher than the previous year's temperature. This can be done by him as

The random variable is the number of years in which the temperature increased from the previous year.

Its possible values are {0,1,2,3,4,5}.