Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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1. Introduction to Statistics
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Exercise 17 Page 417

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.

How many pages are in the favorite books of students your age?

There are multiple possible number of pages in a book so we would get a variety of answers to that question. Then we could, for example, describe the tendency of answers to see what the most popular size of the book is. This means that this is a statistical question.