4.53 Discrete or continuous. In each of the following situations, decide whether the random variable is discrete or continuous and give a reason for your answer.

  1. (a) Your web page has five different links, and a user can click on one of the links or can leave the page. You record the length of time that a user spends on the web page before clicking one of the links or leaving the page.

  2. (b) You record the number of hits per day on your web page.

  3. (c) You record the yearly income of a visitor to your web page.