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Exercise 3 Page 479

What makes a question a statistical question?

Not statistical, 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 response but rather a range of responses.

In other words, when we ask this type of question, we want to know the distribution or tendency of responses. Now let's take a look at the given question.

How many pages did Liz read yesterday?

There is only one correct answer to this question because there is only one number of pages that Liz read yesterday. This means that this is not a statistical question.