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A continuous quantity can be represented by a real number, and has infinitely many possible values between any two values in its domain. Examples are the quantity of an air pollutant released during a given period of time, the distance in miles of a residence from a source of air pollution, and the volume of air breathed by a specified individual during one year.

For a large discrete quantity, such as the number of humans residing within 50 miles of Disneyland on December 25, 1980, it is often convenient to treat it as continuous. Even though you know that the number of live people must be an integer, you might want to represent uncertainty about the number with a continuous probability distribution.

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