Question:
(08.01)Frank is surveying shoppers about their use of the new food court in a mall. Which question in his survey is a statistical question?
(a) How many hours do you spend at the food court each month?
(b) Where is the food court located in the mall?
(c) How many restaurants are there in the food court?
(d) Who is the manager of the food court?
Answer:
The correct option is;
(a) How many hours do you spend at the food court each month?
Explanation:
To answer the question, we look at each of the options
(a) How many hours do you spend at the food court each month?
Here, he will have a different answer to the above question from each respondent he asks, so he will be required to build up or collect his statistical data from by asking the above question.
(b) Where is the food court located in the mall?
Here, he will get similar answer from all respondents
(c) How many restaurants are there in the food court?
Here also he will get similar answer from all respondents
(d) Who is the manager of the food court?
This is also fact statement so he will get similar answer from all respondents .