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.
How many desks are in your classroom?
There is only one correct number of desks in our classroom so we would get a single answer to that question. This means that this is not a statistical question.
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How to Change This Question So That It Is statistical?
We can rewrite the given question to get a statistical question. To do so, we could ask about the number of desks per classroom in the whole school.
How many desks per classroom are there in your school?
Now we get multiple answers because the number of desks might vary between the classrooms. Therefore, this is a statistical question.
