Select the correct data type for the number of field goals kicked in a specific football game - discrete or continuous.

In this case, the only possible answer is that this type
of data is discrete.  This cannot possibly be
continuous.

Continuous data must be able to have pretty
much any value.  Specifically, continuous data can come in fractions or decimals.  This
is why you can tell that this is not continuous data.  There is no way that a kicker can
kick 2.3 field goals in a specific game.  If this were an average, okay, but not in one
specific game.

Discrete data have only a finite possible
set of outcomes.  These are often set apart by intervals.  In other words, in this case,
the answers can only be in whole numbers so the possible answers are finite and have
intervals between them.

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