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1. Which of the following would be considered a statistical question? (1) Who was the highest paid athlete in 2020? (2) How much does a gallon of gasoline cost? (3) How many people voted for president in 2016?(4) What are the different types of maple trees?

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Looking at the sentences, we have that (1), (2) and (3) are questions that require just one specific answer (For (1) it's a name of a person, for (2) it's a value and for (3) it's also a single value).

But in sentence (4), there are more than one type of maple tree, so we can answer with each type of maple tree, stating the percentage of each type for example.

So the sentence that would be considered a statistical question is (4).

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