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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 13#️⃣ Question 8 TOSS UP📝 Multiple Choice

Researchers at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering are studying pricing models, such as the Black-Scholes (shoals) model. In this model, the price of a commodity is a continuous stochastic variable whose value fluctuates according to geometric Brownian motion. Which of the following values cannot be modeled as a continuous stochastic variable?

W) The average global temperature over the next century
X) The winning number for the Powerball lottery
Y) The distance between two water molecules in a glass of water
Z) The widths of particles in a pile of sand
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