Question

A coach wants to know if basketball players who warm up before a game will shoot more points than those who don't warm up. He will break the team up into two groups and make sure each player gets equal time on the court. He will then count how many points each player makes during the game. What statistic should he study?

Answer 1

The statistics should the coach study is the number of points a player can get during the game. This will show how warm up before the game effective to the players in the actual game. The coach should also study the improvement of the players in each game especially those who warm up.

Answer 2

The mean number of points earned by each group.

Explanation:

Mean: The mean population is the average of entire population. Mean is the measure of central tendency.

Standard deviation: A measure of each observation's variations from the mean. It measures the consistency.

Consider the provided information.

Coach break the team up into two groups and make sure each player gets equal time on the court.

He will count how many points each player makes during the game.

By doing this he wants to find the central tendency of the data.

As he will count how many points each player makes during the game then he need to study the mean number of points earned by each group.