What is Statistics?

Is the following question statistical or non statistical?
How many cars are in the parking lot?

• Statsitical
• Non Statistical

Is the following question statistical or non statistical?

How many siblings do each student have?

• Statistical

• Non Statistical

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CCSS.6.SP.A.1

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

At a middle school, the 7th graders will conduct a survey for where to go on a field trip. Which method will result in the least biased decision?

• to randomly ask 8th grade students who went on a field trip last year
• to randomly choose some 7th grade students to select a location
• to ask all 7th grade teachers and administrators for a location
• to ask the student council to choose a location

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

The choir director in a high school wants to know how the students in the school feel about singing. If the director selects 100 girls and 100 boys to complete a survey, which method will result in a biased sample?

• The students will be selected from the choir
• The students will be selected randomly throughout the school
• The students will be selected on Wednesday afternoon before the choir concert
• The choir director will select five students from each of the forty homerooms in the school

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.7.SP.A.1

A teacher asked 20 students how many books they read last summer. The dot plot displays the data. What is the greatest number of books a student read?

• 1
• 6
• 9
• 10

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CCSS.2.MD.D.9

Is the following question statistical or non statistical?
What pets does our class have?

• Statistical
• Non statistical

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CCSS.6.SP.A.1

Is the following question statistical or non statistical?
How many cars are in the parking lot?

• Statsitical
• Non Statistical

Where is a gap in the data?

•  2
•  6
• 5
• 0

Is there a peak in the data?

• There is a peak around 2.
• There is a peak around 4.5.
• There is no peak.
• There are two peaks, at 2 and 4.5.

Is the following question statistical or non statistical?
How many ceiling tiles are in our classroom?

• Statistical
• Non Statistical