Is the distance a baseball travels in the air after being hit distance a baseball travels in the air after being hit a discrete random variable, a continuous random variable, or not a random variable?

Continuous random variable

Explanation:

The distance that baseball travels after being hit is a random variable and it assume any real value defined on the sample space.

The distance is measurable and thus is continuous random variable because continuous variable cannot be counted but could be measured.

answer: the correct answer is 1.

explanation: there are various process in which a radioactive nuclei decays:

1) alpha decay: in this process, a heavier nuclei decays into lighter nuclei by releasing alpha particle. the mass number is reduced by 4 units.

2) electron capture: in this decay process, a parent nuclei absorbs an electron and gets converted into a neutron. simply, a proton and an electron combines together to form a neutron. mass number does not change in this process.

3) gamma ray emission: it is a decay process in which an unstable nuclei gives excess energy by a spontaneous electromagnetic process. this decay releases . this process does not change the mass number.

4) positron emission: it is a type of decay process, in which a proton gets converted to neutron and an electron neutrino. this is also known as -decay. in this the mass number remains same.

from the above information, we see that only alpha-decay is producing a change in the mass number of the nucleus.

think its the third option