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When can a question be called a statistical question?
No, see solution.
Let's remember when a question can be called a statistical question.
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Statistical Question |
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A question for which we do not expect to get a single answer but rather a variety of answers |
In other words, when we ask this type of question, we want to know what the distribution or tendency of answers is. Now let's take a look at the given question.
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How many positive integers are less than 20? |
There is only one correct number of positive integers that are less than 20, so we always get a single answer to that question. Let's find it by listing all of the integers that are positive and less than 20. 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 We can see that there are 19 positive integers less than 20. This means that this is not a statistical question.