Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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Exercise 2 Page 447

When can a question be called a statistical question?

Yes, see solution.

Let's remember when a question can be called a statistical question.

Statistical Question

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.

In what month were the students in a sixth-grade class born?

There are 12 months in a year so we would get a variety of answers to that question. Then we could, for example, describe the distribution of answers to see in what month the greatest number of students were born. This means that this is a statistical question.