Question

Chloe asked students in her school band these two questions.

Question 1: How many days per week do you practice your instrument?

Question 2: How many times will our band perform this year?

Use the drop-down menus to explain whether each question is a statistical question.

Question 1

Choose

a statistical question because each student's answer will be

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Question 2 Choose.

a statistical question because each student's answer will be

Choose the options to the question is is and is not

Answer 1

Question 1: Statistical

Question 2: Not Statistical

Explanation:

Given

Question 1 and 2

Required

Are they statistical questions?

A question is said to be statistical if it can be answered through data collection and if there are variances in the collected data.

Using this yardstick, we can say that (1) is a statistical question because the frequency at which the band perform in a week can be determined by gathering data of their past practice.

This can not be said of (2) because (2) has not been done yet, there is no available data to make predictions and lastly, the variance of an unavailable data can not be determined.