I've had a similar question about petrol prices
The question went like this, "is petrol prices discrete or continuous?"
I knew that petrol prices were rounded to 2 d.p because the previous bit of that question said so. The petrol price is rounded to a terminating decimal and therefore discrete is the correct.
Continuous also doesn't exclusively mean can be measured. It just means that the value of something can change continuously as the word suggests and that the decimal doesn't terminate.
Yes, hence my confusion. My question in the first place was about distance that was recorded to ONE decimal place e.g. 4.9km, 0.8km, 3.5km etc. (i.e. the distances weren't recorded with "infinite precision" [which is said to be continuous] nor to the nearest km [which would be discrete]). But, from what I've read in this thread, this would make it a DISCRETE variable, regardless of whether the distance was
rounded to the nearest tenth of a kilometre OR if it was
EXACTLY 4.9km, 0.8km and so forth (whether it was exact or rounded was not specified in the premise). However, in the solutions this was classified as a CONTINUOUS variable instead ... is there something fundamental that I'm missing or??? Are the answers wrong lmao