Is the response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week question mark "response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week? " a discrete random variable, a continuous random variable, or not a random variable?

Summary statistics given for independent simple random samples from two populations. use the pooled t-interval procedure to obtain specified confidence interval. x1=71.6, s1=3.9, n1=11, x2=67.9, s2=3.4, n2=9 determine a 99% confidence level.