Introduction to Statistical Questions
This worksheet introduces Grade 11 students to statistical questions, focusing on identifying, formulating, and analyzing data variability.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Show all your work where applicable.
1. Which of the following is a statistical question?
How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
What was the highest temperature recorded in Paris yesterday?
What are the heights of the students in your math class?
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
2. A question is statistical if it anticipates variability in the data that will be collected to answer it. True or False?
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False
3. A non-statistical question has a single, definite .
4. To turn a non-statistical question into a statistical one, you often need to consider a of individuals or instances.
5. Explain why the question 'How many text messages did you send yesterday?' is not a statistical question, but 'How many text messages did students in our class send yesterday?' is statistical.
6. Provide an example of a statistical question related to the amount of sleep high school students get. Justify why it is statistical.
7. Consider the following data on the number of hours students spent studying for a math test: 5, 3, 7, 5, 6, 4, 8, 5, 7, 6.
Create a simple bar graph to represent this data. Label your axes.