6.SP.1 Statistical Questions

Which of the following is a statistical question?

• How many letters are in my name?

• What is my favorite subject in school?

• How many televisions are in my house?

• What are the heights of the students in my history class?

Jackson is writing a survey. How could Jackson ask a statistical question?

• He could ask his younger sister how many toys she has.

• He could ask each person in his class who the tallest person in the class is.

• He could ask each member of his family what their favorite color is.

• He could ask his teacher what the highest grade she has ever given was.

Which shows a statistical question regarding a data set?

• What is the total number of tires on a tricycle?

• What is the total number of letters in a word?

• What is the total number of months in a year?

• What is the total number of stripes on the American flag?

Kelan likes collecting seashells and storing them in a box. He can empty the seashells out of the box and see all the seashells at once. Which of these is a statistical question that Kelan can ask about his seashells?

• How many seashells are in the box?

• How many seashells in the box are white?

• How small is the smallest seashell in the box?

• What is the distribution of sizes of seashells in the box?

Tiffany wrote a statistical question on the board for her class. Which question would he have NOT put on the board?

• How many fish do bears eat each day? 

• How many fish are at the aquarium in town?

• How many fish does each student in class own?

• How many fish are born each year?

Which question was asked to statistically validate the claim that scary movies are the best?

• "What was the last movie you saw?"

• "What is your favorite type of movie?"

• "How many scary movies have you seen?"

• "How often do you go to see scary movies?"

Micah's bar graphs depict the amount of money he earned each day of the week for 4 weeks. Which bar graph displays data without variability?

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Ashley wrote a survey that she will give to 10 friends in her math class. The survey includes the following 4 questions. Which question is MOST likely to have variability in the answers?

• How many students are in your math class?

• How many science teachers work at your school?

• How many quizzes have been given in your math class?

• How many questions did you answer correctly on the last math quiz?