Statistical Questions Worksheet
A Grade 9 math worksheet focused on identifying and formulating statistical questions, distinguishing them from non-statistical questions, and understanding data variability.
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Statistical Questions Worksheet
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet assesses your understanding of statistical questions and data variability.
1. Which of the following is a statistical question?
How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
What is the capital of Canada?
What are the favorite colors of students in your class?
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
2. Which question is NOT a statistical question?
How many states are in the United States?
What are the ages of the teachers at your school?
How many text messages do students in your class send each day?
What are the heights of the basketball players on the team?
Rewrite each non-statistical question as a statistical question.
3. Non-statistical question: How old is the principal?
Statistical question:
4. Non-statistical question: What is the boiling point of water?
Statistical question:
5. Explain in your own words why a statistical question must anticipate variability in the data.
6. Provide an example of a statistical question and explain what kind of variability you would expect in the answers.
Indicate whether each statement is True or False.
7. A statistical question always has a single, definite answer.
True
False
8. The question 'How many miles does your teacher drive to school?' is a statistical question.
True
False
A teacher asked her students: 'How many hours did you spend on homework last night?' The responses were: 1, 2, 0, 1.5, 2, 1, 0.5, 3, 1, 2.5
9. Create a simple bar graph to represent the data collected by the teacher.