Statistical Questions Worksheet
A Grade 7 math worksheet focusing on identifying statistical questions and understanding variability in data.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand statistical questions and how they differ from non-statistical questions.
Which of the following is a statistical question?
What is the capital of France?
How many siblings does your teacher have?
How tall is the tallest building in the world?
How many books did students in your class read last month?
Which question would you expect to have variability in the answers?
What is the boiling point of water?
How many days are in September?
How many text messages did each student in your class send yesterday?
What is the sum of 5 and 7?
1. A statistical question always has exactly one correct answer.
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False
2. Data collected from a statistical question will show variability.
True
False
1. A statistical question is one that anticipates an answer that varies or has .
2. Questions that have only one possible answer are called questions.
1. Explain the difference between a statistical question and a non-statistical question. Provide an example of each.
A teacher asked her students: 'How many hours did you spend reading last week?' The results are shown in the bar graph below.
1. Is the teacher's question a statistical question? Why or why not?