Question

A school conducted a survey to find out which games students enjoy watching the most. The table below contains the results of the survey.

Grade Basketball Baseball Football Soccer Tennis Other Marginal Totals
Elementary School 51 18 26 32 4 6 137
Middle School 50 24 44 34 7 18 177
High
School 42 17 58 36 11 24 188
Marginal Totals 143 59 128 102 22 48 502

Which observation is supported by the data in the table?


Tennis is most popular among elementary school students.



Baseball is most popular among students in all grades.



Football is most popular among high school students.



Soccer is most popular among middle school students.

Answer 1

football is most polular among high school students

Answer 2

The observation that is supported by the data in the table is:

Football is most popular among high school students.

Explanation:

The table is given by:

Grade Basket Base Foot Soccer Tennis Other Total

Elementary 51 18 26 32 4 6 137

School

Middle 50 24 44 34 7 18 177

School

High 42 17 58 36 11 24 188 School

Total 143 59 128 102 22 48 502

a)

Tennis is most popular among elementary school students.

This option is incorrect as the frequency corresponding to tennis is least among elementary school students.

b)

Baseball is most popular among students in all grades.

This option is incorrect as we may observe that the frequency of baseball among each grade student is low than basketball.

Hence, it can't be popular.

c)

Football is most popular among high school students.

This option is correct.

Since the frequency of football is highest among high school students as compared to all the other given sports.

d)

Soccer is most popular among middle school students.

This option is incorrect as the frequency of soccer among middle school students is not highest.